Update: 2:15PM A JOINT operation by the Fiji Revenue and Customs Authority and the Fiji Police Force uncovered heroin with a wholesale value of around $A30 million hidden in a container.

FRCA
chief executive officer Jitoko Tikolevu said the illicit drugs were found in
the tyres of a quad bike – tightly packed in about 80 packets.

Preliminary
tests revealed the content to be heroin.

“The
seizure of heroin is rare. Heroin attracts a higher price than cocaine on the
streets,” Mr Tikolevu said.

FRCA
officers were assisted by Fiji Police officers in the afternoon raid at the
Lautoka Wharf.

It has
been confirmed that the consignment was bound from China and addressed to a
local resident.

Acting
Commissioner of Police Isikeli Vuniwaqa said police were now conducting their
investigations which were at its early stages at present.

Detailed
reports in tomorrow’s edition