Nearly $250,000 cash, $5 million of drugs and guns were seized from an alleged crime syndicate whose members had day jobs as plasterers and plaster board-stoppers.
The methamphetamine bust was described by police as one of the biggest in New Zealand.
Five men and a woman were arrested after a year-long investigation by the newly-formed police Organised and Financial Crime Agency (OFCANZ) and Auckland Metro Crime squad.
Aenoy Bouavong, Aenoy Keophila, Henry Mika, Tavita Maleko, Fenk Chih Hsu and Thi Hong La Nguyen appeared in the Auckland District Court yesterday charged with supplying methamphetamine.
Two more men named in the charge sheets have yet to be arrested.
Detective Inspector Stephen Wood from OFCANZ, said the alleged offenders were involved in an Asian organised crime syndicate, running importation and distribution networks for methamphetamine.
Five kilograms of methamphetamine, 2kg of ContacNT - the main ingredient in P - with a street value of $500,000 and $236,000 in cash, as well as firearms and ammunition were seized from addresses searched simultaneously across Auckland.
Big P raid nets cash, drugs, guns
Equipment for making and smoking P. Photo / APN
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