A 55-year-old man will face court today over allegedly supplying prohibited drugs via the ‘dark web’.
Strike Force Presland was established by the State Crime Command’s Cybercrime Squad in November 2022 to investigate, with detectives identifying a marketplace facilitating the supply of cannabis in exchange for cryptocurrency.
Police will allege in court that the man had received more than $1.46 million in cryptocurrency in exchange for prohibited drugs on more than 450 occasions between March 2018 and April 2023.
The man was arrested after extensive inquiries in Kempsey around 11:30am Thursday 27th April before a search warrant was executed at a home 7km from Kempsey.
He was charged with eight offences and refused to bail to appear at Kempsey Local Court.
