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    A 69-year-old man's been sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison - after trying to smuggle more than four kilos of meth through Auckland International Airport

    A 69-year-old man's been sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison - after trying to smuggle more than four kilos of meth through Auckland International Airport


    Auckland Airport
    Auckland Airport
    The Dutch national was caught with 4.4 kilograms of the drug in the lining of his luggage, in September last year.

    Customs Auckland Airport Manager, Paul Williams, says it would've caused almost five-million-dollars worth of social harm.

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