Gregory William Jones, 48, of Balmain in Sydney's inner west, and John Michael Wilson, 54, of central Sydney, both appeared via videolink at Parramatta Bail Court.
Both have been charged with importing a commercial quantity of a border controlled drug and attempting to possess a commercial quantity of heroin.Neither man applied for bail and it was formally refused.Both are due to appear at Central Local Court on March 26.A third NSW man, 57-year-old David Wren from Dapto, appeared at Wollongong Magistrates Court on the same charges.He made no application for bail and was remanded in custody to appear at Central Local Court on March 25.
A fourth man, from Adelaide, is due to face the same charges in Adelaide Magistrates Court on Tuesday.It's the second major drug bust by the AFP, NSW Crime Commission and Customs in as many weeks.There have been about 200 separate heroin busts across Australia this year, netting 63kg of the drug.Australian authorities seized cash and drugs worth almost $10 million in raids across three states.
Authorities allege the syndicate concealed 28 kilograms of heroin, with a potential street value of $8.4 million, in three wooden chests of drawers bound for Adelaide.
The chests were intercepted in Sydney in February, then tracked to an address in Camden Park in Adelaide and back to Shellharbour, near Wollongong in NSW, by a joint-agency taskforce made up of the Australian Federal Police (AFP), NSW Police, NSW Crime Commission and Customs.
The taskforce seized the heroin and more than $1.5 million in international currency in raids in Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane on Thursday.
Police said they believed the cash, found in various locations, including the glovebox of a car, was the "proceeds of previous (drug-related) activity".
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