Bugged 'cocaine' nabs Colombian brothers
MAY 28 2021 - 2:15PM
Nick Gibbs
Two Colombian brothers expecting to collect millions of dollars worth of cocaine in Queensland were unwittingly given dummy drugs concealing listening devices planted by police.
The pair were unaware the mic'd up substitutes had been planted after the real drugs were discovered in a shipping container that arrived in Brisbane in January 2018.
Giovani Buitrago Aguilar, 55, and Wilmar Buitrago Aguilar, 52, both pleaded guilty for their role in receiving what they presumed to be 60 bricks of cocaine with a wholesale value of between two and six million dollars.
Australian Border Force officers discovered 99 bricks of drugs concealed in the upper beams of a shipping container transporting shredded rubber from Colombia.
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https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7273899/bugged-cocaine-nabs-colombian-brothers/?cs=14231
