Mosaic tiles, crane parts, buses, expensive fabric and 'vegetable spring rolls'. These are just some of the elaborate concealment methods criminals have used to try to smuggle drugs into Australia.In the 2025
Mosaic tiles, crane parts, buses, expensive fabric and 'vegetable spring rolls'. These are just some of the elaborate concealment methods criminals have used to try to smuggle drugs into Australia.
In the 2025 calendar year, Australian Border Force (ABF) intercepted varied air, mail and sea cargo consignments of illicit substances and precursors destined for Australian shores and, with the AFP, seized:
• 9.2 tonnes of methamphetamine, which had an estimated street value of $5.5 billion;
• 7.8 tonnes of cocaine, which had an estimated street value of $2.5 billion;
• 6.3 tonnes of 1,4-butanediol, which had an estimated street value of $18.9 million;
• 1.3 tonnes of ketamine, which had an estimated street value of $273 million;
• 260kg of MDMA, which had an estimated street value of $42.6 million; and
• 220kg of heroin, which had an estimated street value of $110 million.
Through extensive collaboration, intelligence gathering and information sharing, Australian authorities continue to identify sneaky concealment methods criminal syndicates use.
A recent seizure at Port Botany, New South Wales, in December 2025 saw ABF officers locate 22 individually wrapped plastic blocks containing an estimated total weight of 27kg of cocaine. The estimated value of the cocaine is
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