Multimillion-dollar crystal meth lab found hidden in remote farm

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Multimillion-dollar crystal ***** lab found hidden in remote farm

Three ******** suspects were arrested with two South Africans when elite police units raided a multimillion-dollar

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lab hidden in a remote farm north of Johannesburg,

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Tuesday.

The owner of the farm near Groblersdal, about 125 miles from Johannesburg, was among four men arrested on Friday, police said.

A third ******** was picked up on Monday, the spokeswoman for the elite

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told AFP.

“The drugs were obviously intended for local and international *****,” Brigadier Thandi Mbambo told AFP, adding that the manufacturing facility was operating “at a large scale.”

Authorities also seized large quantities of chemicals used to manufacture illicit drugs, including crystal ***** and acetone, valued at around two billion rands (more than $100 million), police said.

The Hawks and other specialized units raided the farm in the Limpopo province after a tip-off of suspicious activity there. Police photographs showed the operation was fairly sophisticated and included large machinery.

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Elite police units raided a crystal ***** lab hidden in a remote farm north of Johannesburg, police said Tuesday. / Credit: South ******** Police Service

So far this year, the Hawks have uncovered ten 10 clandestine ***** laboratories and made 34 arrests, police said in a

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South ******* is a major consumer of ***** and the market is growing in neighboring countries and elsewhere in the region, according to a 2021 report by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized ******.

“The consumer base for ***** in South ******* appears to be significantly greater than initially imagined, marking it potentially among the largest ***** consumer markets in the world,”

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The ******* Nations Office on Drugs and ******

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that South ******* is an appealing hub for illicit drugs destined for other countries.

“South *******’s geography, porous borders and international trade links with Asia, ****** America, Western Europe and North America have made it an attractive ***** transit country,” the report says

The country’s ports are believed to regularly receive containers of ******** that are in transit and do not even land ashore, the drugs agency said.

The crystal ***** bust in South ******* comes about two months after

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said they had seized 1.8 tons of crystal ***** that Mexico’s

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was trying to sell in Europe, the country’s “biggest-ever seizure” of the *********.

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