300 kilos of cocaine have been seized from a yacht docked on the coast of Queensland.

An Australian court charged four Spaniards with importing drugs on Monday, after one of the country’s biggest ever hauls of cocaine was seized on Australia’s north eastern coast last Friday. They have been remanded to custody ahead of the next hearing on January 12 and each face possible life imprisonment if found guilty.

It’s understood that two of the suspects are resident in Australia.

The three hundred kilos of cocaine which were seized from a yacht in Bundaberg, Queensland, are valued at some 80 million dollars and represent Australia’s fifth largest haul.

Australian police swooped as the two crew, Julia María Boada Fernández and Iván María Ramos Valea, who were crewing the yacht, ‘Friday Freedom’, were allegedly negotiating the sale of part of the cargo with the other two suspects, José Herrero Calvo and Miguel Ángel Sánchez Barrocal.

The boat arrived in Bundaberg from Vanuatu, in the South Pacific, last month, where the two crew were located in September.

Police also seized 3 million dollars in cash after searching two addresses in Sydney and the Australian Gold Coast.

Source:www.typicallyspanish.com