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AFP officers seized a total of 534 kg with an estimated street value of 400.5 million Australian dollars (279.7 million U.S. dollars).<br \/>The AFP and ABF said that the container had been shipped from the U.S. state of Texas to Sydney via Panama and was bound for delivery to an address in Melbourne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian authorities have seized more than 500 kg of cocaine from a shipping container that arrived in Sydney from the U.S. state of Texas.The Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Border Force (ABF) said on Wednesday that officers at Sydney&#8217;s Port Botany identified suspicious packages inside the container on Monday and located 14 concealed duffel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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