A FREIGHT forwarding worker from Sydney has been sentenced to six years and six months imprisonment for his role in a plan to import 100kg of methamphetamine from Canada.
The 41-year old man was charged in March 2022 following a joint AFP and ABF investigation into a transnational drug trafficking syndicate, which attempted to smuggle the drugs into Australia.
In 2021 the Canadian Border Service Authority found the 100kg consignment inside a commercial dough mixer.
One tonne of methylamine was also seized in the investigation, a prohibited substance used to manufacture methamphetamine and MDMA.
The joint ABF-AFP Taskforce Vanguard launched Operation Dagger in October 2021, following the seizure of the shipment by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
RCMP officers replaced the illicit drugs with an inert substance, before forwarding the consignment to NSW.
Police alleged in court that the Sydney man used his role at a freight forwarding company to facilitate the methamphetamine importation.
The man was arrested at a Beercroft residence in March 2022, and during a search police seized electronic devices, including a mobile phone and laptop, on which they found evidence relating to the drug importation.
The investigation also resulted in the arrest of a man from Punchbowl who police alleged organised the importation, after the AFP allowed the consignment to be delivered as planned to a property in Wentworthville in October 2021.
In 2023 the man was sentenced to 11 years imprisonment.
AFP Acting Sergeant Shannon O’Reilly said the success of the operation could not have been achieved without the cooperation and longstanding valued relationship with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canadian Border Service Authority.
