The Bachelors Australia 2023‘s Marjorie Griffiths has been arrested in a dawn raid and charged with high-end drug supply and money laundering offences.
The 27-year-old was asleep in her Central Coast home when armed Raptor Squad officers burst through her door on October 20 as part of a major police operation targeting an international organised crime network.
Per the Daily Telegraph, Majorie requested that she be allowed to get dressed and emerged looking put together for the waiting cameras.
She was taken to Gosford Police Station and charged,
NSW Police Organised Crime Squad boss Detective Superintendent Peter Faux told the publication that in court, authorities will allege that Marjorie was a big player in the network supplying large commercial quantities of drugs.
They also believe she moved the proceeds of those illicit drugs through an international money laundering syndicate.
Her charges included supplying a large commercial quantity of drugs and offences relating to money laundering.
Money was allegedly laundered through a Vietnamese syndicate
Marjorie was charged by organised Crime Squad detectives who established Strike Force Glenfern when they allegedly uncovered a large-scale drug operation being run on the Central Coast, due to drug money allegedly being laundered through a Vietnamese syndicate.
A 37-year-old man in Vietnam was identified as allegedly running a money laundering syndicate in NSW.
It reportedly converted large amounts of cash to cryptocurrency for crime groups involved in drugs.
To date, detectives have charged 12 people — one with money laundering offences to the value of $6.8 million — and seized about 300kg of prohibited drugs, $2.8 million in cash and 15 firearms.
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