Smuggled meth found in COVID-19 hand sanitizer and mask packages \ud83d\ude37
There is no end to how smugglers try to circumvent borders to get blackmarket and illegal goods to where the demand — and profit — is high. The Mob Reporter here with news of Canadian drug smugglers trying to exploit the COVID-19 pandemic by mailing methamphetamine to Australia, hidden in coronavirus protection items.
Because Australia is an island, Australia pays a lot of attention to trying to ferret out drugs crossing its borders. The effort includes intensive surveillance of the international mail. Australian police routinely find all manner of drugs tucked into birthday cards and presents, mail-order goods and packages sent through the post.
This week, Australian police revealed a new twist on an old plot. First Australia Border Force officers in Sydney inspected a package sent from Canada that the sender described as containing medicine and clothing. Inside, officers found boxes of medical facemasks and bottles of hand sanitizer. In a false bottom, was a vacuum-sealed bag containing one kilogram of the addictive drug methamphetamine.
Two days later, border officers at the same facility found a second consignment from Canada, also containing boxes of facemasks and two bottles of hand sanitizer. This time, the meth was found inside the hand sanitizer bottles. Another 800 grams were seized.
The bottles were Rexall and Equate brands and distinctly Canadian, with bilingual French and English labels.
Australian border guards have also stopped illicit shipments of hydroxychloroquine, a drug unproven to be effective as a COVID cure but is nonetheless touted by U.S. President Donald Trump.
Dozens of consignments of hydroxychloroquine, totaling more than 6,000 tablets, have been intercepted at the border since the start of the pandemic.
The shipments are under investigation.
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