A 40-year-old businessman who is charged with one count of unlawful importation of illicit drugs will be produced in the Lautoka Magistrates Court today.
A joint operation by the Fiji Revenue and Customs Authority and the Fiji Police Force yesterday uncovered one of Fiji’s biggest drug busts where FJD$30 million worth of heroin was discovered at the Lautoka wharf.
The drugs were found in the tyres of a quad bike inside a container.
The drugs were tightly packed in about 80 packets and preliminary tests revealed the content to be heroin.
FRCA’s CEO Jitoko Tikolevu has also confirmed that the drugs were from Thailand and it was addressed to a local resident.
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