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A 48-year-old Sydney man will appear in the Downing Centre Local court today (Tuesday 16 February) following an investigation into allegations of fraud.

Four people have been charged by the Joint Organised Crime Group (JOCG) for their alleged involvement in the importation and manufacture of 720 litres methylamphetamine with an estimated potential street value of more than a billion dollars.

The AFP is aware of a recent statement made by the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA), claiming that it “is trawling the metadata of journalists and we know that because when we met the federal government representatives and the federal police to discuss our concerns about the metadata legislation, the AFP admitted that they had accessed the metadata of journalists 13 times in an 18-month period in an effort to identify the source of a published story”.

A 27-year-old Sydenham man is scheduled to appear in Melbourne Magistrates Court today charged by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) with importing approximately 23 kilograms of methamphetamine into Australia.

A 22-year-old Chinese national has been arrested and 26.4 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine has been seized in Perth following a joint agency investigation to reduce the flow of ice into Western Australia.

The NSW Joint Counter Terrorism Team has charged an 18-year-old Auburn woman with 31 counts of “failure to answer questions” under the provisions of Section 25 (2)(b) of the Crime Commission Act (2012) (NSW).

Detectives from the South Australia Police Special Crimes Investigation Branch and the Australian Federal Police arrested a 52-year-old man from the northern suburbs overnight as part of the Joint Anti Child Exploitation Team (JACET).

A 30-year-old Bulgarian national is scheduled to appear in Southport Magistrates Court today (Friday, 29 January), charged with allegedly selling and possessing counterfeit electronic goods at a retail kiosk in Surfers Paradise.

Two men have been charged following a joint agency investigation into the importation of border controlled drugs through the air cargo and international air mail stream.

A Bees Creek man will appear before Darwin Magistrates Court today for attempting to supply cannabis with an estimated street value of more than $120,000 and alcohol to a remote indigenous community in the Northern Territory.