‘Fiji’ labelled drugs were not routed to pass through Fiji: Police

Fiji Police say a major drug shipment intercepted in Sydney was not routed through Fiji or the Pacific, despite cocaine bricks in the haul being stamped with the word “Fiji”.

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Australian Border Force (ABF) uncovered 373 kilograms of illicit drugs hidden inside a diesel generator during a seizure in Sydney recently.

Police spokesperson Ana Naisoro confirmed yesterday that the Fiji Police Force’s Transnational Crime Unit (TCU) had been alerted to the shipment’s intended route.

“Joint sharing of information and intelligence had been ongoing to determine the destination of the illicit substances,” Ms Naisoro told this masthead.

The TCU is a dedicated unit that monitors and investigates cross-border criminal activity.

The seizure was made after an x-ray flagged anomalies during a routine inspection, leading authorities to discover 106 one-kilogram blocks of cocaine, 14kg of loose cocaine, 250kg of methamphetamine, 3kg of MDMA, and 800g of 2CB.

Cocaine bricks stamped with the word “Fiji” were among the drugs seized.

It is not the first time the Fiji label has appeared on intercepted drug packages. In November 2024, cocaine bricks marked “Fiji” were among a 13-tonne haul seized in Spain, hidden in a banana shipment from Ecuador.

The Sydney seizure comes days after Fiji and the AFP co-hosted the Pacific Transnational Crime Summit in Suva last week, where AFP Commissioner Krissy Barrett warned that 17 tonnes of illicit drugs had already been seized across the Pacific region in 2026 alone — far exceeding the 4.6 tonnes seized during the whole of 2025.