A Sydney couple have been jailed for trying to import meth worth $12m from Iran.
AFP started the probe in August 2023 when Australian Border Force (ABF) officers examined a shipping container from the Middle Eastern country destined for Guildford in Sydney.
Sydney couple jailed over failed meth import from Iran AFP
They found 13kg of pure meth inside within five blue shipping pallets.
Those pallets were taken out and the rest were delivered to a storage unit in Waterloo in Sydney’s south that September.
AFP officers executed search warrants in Surry Hills and Waterloo on September 18, 2023.
Sydney couple jailed over failed meth import from Iran AFP
They seized an encrypted communications device and other mobiles, the pallets removed from the consignment, and drugs.
The pair were found guilty of attempting to possess a commercial quantity of an unlawfully imported border-controlled drug, namely methamphetamine, contrary to section 307.5(1) of the Criminal Code (Cth) on 2 October, 2025.
The man, 36, was sentenced to 11 years in prison and the woman, 32, got ten years.
The court heard the couple used fraudulent consignee details and diverted the shipment to other locations several times to try to evade police.
AFP Detective Acting Inspector Aaron Burgess said: “Anyone involved in the importation of illicit drugs should know they are in the sights of the AFP and our partners, and we are working tirelessly to identify them and put them before the courts.”