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5 charged after over 1 ton of cocaine found on boat off Australia's east coast

Sydney, May 11 (UNI) Five men have been arrested and charged after Australian police seized more than one ton of cocaine found on a boat off the country's east coast, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Police in the state of New South Wales (NSW) said on Sunday in a joint media release.
NSW police force and AFP officers intercepted the vessel on Friday morning, about nine nautical miles off the coast of Nambucca Heads in northern NSW.
Approximately 1,110 blocks of cocaine, weighing 1,039 kg with a street value of 623.4 million Australian dollars (about 399.7 million U.S. dollars), were found on the boat.
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