A 320kg shipment of crystal meth has been imported into Australia hidden in bags of charcoal that police uncovered using an X-ray machine.
Two shipping containers that arrived in Port Botany in Sydney from Ghana raised alarms for Australian Border Force officers.
Scans of the dozens of bags of charcoal revealed a white crystallised substance, with testing confirming it was methamphetamine.
The drugs were removed and the charcoal was then delivered to a storage facility in Girraween in western Sydney on 20 April, where a British woman allegedly supervised a number of men as they unpacked the container.
Some of the bags were then loaded into a vehicle and driven to a house in Blacktown.
A short time later, Australian Federal Police investigators raided the woman's home and arrested her.
