AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺 (Sydney) : more than 200 kilograms of cocaine hidden inside a boat sailing off the NSW coast has been seized by police

The drugs were concealed inside packages and stuffed into tubs on the boat, which was intercepted by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australia Border Force (ABF) on Saturday following a tip-off.
The boat was brought in for forensic analysis in Balmain, in Sydney’s Inner West, where the drugs were unloaded.
A larger 330m « mother » vessel containing shipping containers unloaded the drugs onto the smaller « daughter » vessel, which was intercepted off the NSW coast, near the Royal National Park.
The larger boat is now docked in Port Botany and has been searched by police.
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Authorities believe the drugs likely came from Antwerp in Belgium, where the mother vessel originated.
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The « daughter » vessel that was intercepted.

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