His arrest followed an intelligence-driven multi-agency operation at Cape Town harbour, where the Hawks' narcotics enforcement bureau, police crime intelligence, and Sars custom officials tracked a consignment of ecstasy from Europe.
A Durbanville man appeared briefly in the Cape Town magistrate's court on Monday morning after he was arrested at his house in the middle-class suburb in connection with a R6m ecstasy bust.
His arrest followed an intelligence-driven multi-agency operation at Cape Town harbour, where the Hawks' narcotics enforcement bureau, police crime intelligence, and Sars custom officials tracked a consignment of ecstasy from Europe.
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