Sydney men allegedly used freight packages to smuggle $1.25m of cocaine: AFP

Two Sydney men have been charged over allegations they imported cocaine into the country by concealing it in airfreight packages.

Two Sydney men have been charged over the alleged importation of more than $1 million of cocaine concealed in airfreight parcels.

A Green Valley man, 39 and a Bonnyrigg man, 66, were arrested on Tuesday after Australian Federal Police (AFP) investigators executed search warrants at their respective homes.

Officers seized $125,400 in cash during the searches and also found several different driver’s licences, all allegedly using the pair’s image.

Packets of cocaine were allegedly discovered in a package labelled as electric food warmers and a skincare product, leading to the arrest of two men on Tuesday.

Border Force authorities had been investigating the importations in April after officers noticed anomalies in a parcel labelled as an electric food warmer.

An analysis of the package revealed 3kg of cocaine.

This month, another 2kg of the drug were found in a package labelled as a skincare machine that arrived in Sydney.

The drugs were removed before the parcel was delivered to a Smithfield address on Tuesday. The two men were allegedly noticed in the vicinity before they travelled to Green Valley.

Both men have been charged with importing a commercial quantity of a border-controlled drug and attempting to possess a commercial quantity of an unlawfully imported border-controlled drug.

They are also facing multiple counts of dealing with identification over the alleged driver’s licences.

One false identity is alleged to be linked to the previous importation discovered in the electric food warmer package in April.

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