Singaporean arrested in Australian drug bust

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A Singaporean and a man from Hong Kong have been arrested in connection with an unprecedented methamphetamine seizure in Australia that was almost double the previous record, police said Thursday.

Police said the pair, aged 32 and 51, were arrested along with a 21-year-old Australian man in an operation Wednesday that netted more than half a tonne of the drug known as "ice" in raids on six properties across Sydney.

The 585kg haul was estimated to have a street value of A$438 million (S$555 million).

"This is the largest single seizure of ice in Australian law enforcement history and almost doubles the previous record seizure of 300kg in July 2012," police said in a statement.

The drugs were found in a shipment of cleaning chemicals from Shenjing in southern China following a tip-off to the Asian crime squad in September 2012.

The three arrested men, who will appear in a Sydney court Thursday, face life in prison and/or a A$1.275 million fine for commercial drug possession.