Former Fiji citizens charged after drug bust in Australia

Former Fiji citizens charged after drug bust in Australia

By Elizabeth Rokosuka
01/12/2014
NSW Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione and AFP Commissioner Andrew Colvin with a quarter of the drugs seized in the operation. Photo: Daniel Munoz

Two former Fiji citizens living in Sydney are facing drug-related charges after they were allegedly found with 1.5 billion Australian dollars worth of ecstacy and methamphetamine.

Solomone Vukici of Picnic Point, Akuila Bisasa of Mascot and an Australian man Jason Drollet all aged 34 and unemployed were charged following a drug bust on Saturday morning, the second biggest in Australia's history.

The Sydney Morning Herald reports the drug bust allegedly included 1,917 kilograms of ecstasy and 849 kilograms of methamphetamine.

The three men faced Parramatta Local Court yesterday and none of them applied for bail and it was formally refused by magistrate John McIntosh because of the "nature and seriousness of the offence.

Vukici is unemployed, while his wife is a disability carer.

The police documents showed he has previously gone by the name Richard Tai’kua.

Drollet is a New Zealand‑born permanent resident, who lives with his parents in a mobile home. He previously spent three years in jail for drug importation.

Bisasa had access to $800,000 after selling his parents' property on their behalf, and was in the process of moving his family to Fiji.

They will appear in Central Local Court on Wednesday. 

Source: ABC news

 

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