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Officers seized the 320kg shipment - which had been divided into 1kg blocks - inside the vehicle at Port Hedland, a town in the state s northwest, on Sunday.
The failed importation of 60kg of cocaine estimated to be worth $45million from overseas is alleged to have prompted an argument between local smugglers in NSW and their international partners.
Jovanco Kitanovski, 46, allegedly loaded accused drug kingpin Mostafa Baluch into his own Mercedes with a supply of food before driving it into a shipping container which was lifted onto his truck.