Police have made eight arrests and seized $6.5 million in assets, including five properties, as part of an operation to dismantle a “sophisticated” drug dealing and money laundering operation.
Detective Senior Sergeant Andrew Dunhill said police executed 10 search warrants across the North Island on Wednesday.
Several cannabis growing sites were found, where 193 plants as well as nine kilograms of packaged cannabis were seized.
Dunhill said the “ready-to-sell” cannabis seized from just one of the sites was estimated to be worth about $60,000.
