Police seize world’s largest ecstasy haul

AUSTRALIAN authorities recovered over one tonne of ecstasy tablets hidden in a shipment of ceramic tiles in the world’s largest seizure of the drug, police said yesterday.

The shipment of five million ecstasy tablets arrived in the southern Australian city of Melbourne from Italy earlier in the week, said police, who valued the drugs at over €148 million.

“Clearly, this was a major shipment involving a well organised syndicate that was aiming to put a massive amount of tablets onto Australian streets,” Victoria state customs official Jaclyne Fisher said in a statement.