Aussie police seize 220kg drug in Sydney

Sydney, Feb 9 (IANS) Police in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) seized 220 kgs of drug and cash worth 1.15 million Australian dollars (about $0.8 million) during a drug investigation on Wednesday.Officers were called to a property in Canterbury in southwest Sydney on July 9 last year after a plumber who was fixing a leaking toilet pipe found bags of cash and crystal substance in an open cupboard, Xinhua news agency reported.The unit was then declared a crime scene and a locked garage under the complex was searched.It uncovered 15 cardboard boxes containing almost 220 kgs of crystal methamphetamine with an estimated potential street value of 44 million Australian dollars (about $31.5 million).Officers also seized 95g of MDMA, 35g of cocaine, and "chemicals consistent with the manufacture of gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GBH), gamma-butyrolactone (GBL) and ice".Some of the cash money seized were found in a grocery bag, stored in the garage.Police have also released CCTV footage of a man they believe can assist with their investigations.
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