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00:08Eight men were jailed for more than 95 years combined,
00:12following an international investigation into an organised crime syndicate's failed 2023 plot
00:18to traffic more than six tonnes of methamphetamine in bottles of canola oil.
00:23The eight men were arrested across New South Wales and Victoria
00:26for their involvement in setting up four separate consignments sent from Canada,
00:31as well as setting up a clandestine drug laboratory in Melbourne.
00:35Canadian authorities seized more than six tonnes of liquid and crystal methamphetamine
00:41hidden in four separate shipments destined for Australia.
00:44It would have amounted to almost 19 million individual street deals.
00:49Another 700 kilograms of methamphetamine seized in New Zealand
00:54was suspected to have been linked to the same Canadian distributors.
01:03Australia's relationship with our international and domestic law enforcement partners are crucial.
01:08They're crucial to be able to arrest, disrupt, dismantle these significant organised criminal networks
01:14so that we actually take them apart and remove harm from the community.
01:18These criminal networks do not care of the harm they inflict on our communities
01:23by importing illicit drugs into Australia.
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