Australian police have smashed a drug trafficking syndicate and seized heroin worth $A9 million ($NZ11.5 million)
Insp Fryer said."Five kilograms of pure heroin equates to about 20kg on the street . . . that is hundreds of thousands of hits," he said. Australian police have smashed a drug trafficking syndicate and seized heroin worth $A9 million ($NZ11.5 million) destined for Melbourne's streets. Officers in Sydney swooped on a 59-year-old Footscray woman carrying 700 grams, or two blocks of high-grade heroin, as she got on a train bound for Melbourne on Saturday night. The arrest led to a raid on a house in Burnside, in Melbourne's west, on Monday where police arrested three family members accused of being ringleaders of the syndicate.Investigators seized 5kg of heroin, with an alleged wholesale value of $A million and street value of $A9 million, 1.5kg of the illegal drug ice and cash, drug taskforce boss Inspector Doug Fryer told reporters.Police allege the syndicate paid couriers to travel to South-East Asia and return with heroin concealed inside their bodies. Drugs were als