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By: The Opinion Updated 14 Dec 2022, 12: 54 pm EST
The Mexican cartels have found a good market for drug trafficking in Australia, and to achieve their goal they have devised several techniques with which they believe they will not be discovered, some of the most “innovative” are send illicit substances hidden in cowhide or fruit juice.
It was in mid-November when they were detected methamphetamine in a shipment of fruit juices . The drinks were in a shipment from a Mexican company bound for the headquarters of another company in Australia.
According to an investigation carried out by the Milenio newspaper, 54 kilos of methamphetamine were found hidden in a shipment of more than half a ton of juice of lemon belonging to the company AGROINDUSTRIALES PARMER SA DE CV, with headquarters in Jalisco, Mexico, destined for the company AGRAZI LTD, in Australia.
The investigation indicates that, if According to studies and analysis of universities in Australia and the United States, the Jalisco Nueva Generación and Sinaloa cartels are behind the global supply of drugs like methamphetamine, cocaine and more recently fentanyl.
Cattle items
Millennium also documented that in September 2015 Australian police made a major seizure of 29 kilos of methamphetamine, which were hidden in articles made with cowhide
that were labeled as handicrafts. They came from Mexico and were discovered at Brisbane Airport.
The authorities devised a plan to keep track of the final destination of the drug, and thus they managed to detain a Colombian woman of 12 years.
Right in South America, several bosses have used the cowhide method to traffic drugs, because at the beginning of were seized 54 tons of bovine skin, in which there was a ton of cocaine . On that occasion the destination was Bulgaria and the origin was Ecuador.
Drug trafficking in Australia
The corridor of the illegal narcotics trade that runs from downtown and North America to the coveted markets of Australia and New Zealand, is known as “the crystal route”. The name resides in the fact that the most consumed drug is methamphetamine.
Recent years have brought a drastic increase in shipments of methamphetamine from America to that Pacific region. And it is the Mexican criminal groups that are now targeting the lucrative markets of that region.
This means that drug seizures in both points (both Mexico and Australia) are becoming more frequent. There are also more and more new ways in which Mexican cartels try to traffic illicit substances.
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