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February 16th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda A covert police team secretly swapped 14 bricks of methamphetamine with a harmless powder less than 24 hours before a series of raids across Perth and Sydney netted more than 200kg of the drug, a West Australian court has heard.
Dutch national Sjoerd Rogier Segaar, 42, is on trial in the WA Supreme Court after pleading not guilty to possessing a commercial quantity of a prohibited drug, in this case 14.3kg of methamphetamine or “ice”.
On Thursday, the court saw video evidence of the combined federal and WA police team staking out Mr Segaar on April 20 last year in the ocean-side suburb of Scarborough, before locating and substituting the drugs in his rented campervan.
The van, which was full of camping gear, had been decked out to make it look like the driver was on a tourist trip around Australia, according to police witnesses.
After the drugs had been swapped, the court heard how a series of raids were conducted in Sydney that netted more than 200kg of methamphetamine, tens of thousands of dollars in cash, and resulted in a number of local arrests.
Mr Segaar was arrested the same night in Perth.
In the court video, police could be seen going through a white Mitsubishi van in an almost deserted public carpark, before locating two black sports bags hidden under different seats.
Inside the bags were a total of 14 individual packages wrapped in gaffer tape which contained the methamphetamine.
They could be seen weighing and testing the white crystalline substance before emptying each package into evidence bags and replacing them with an equal amount of “inert material”.
One of the empty gaffer-taped packages was later found dumped in the eastern Perth suburb of Queens Park.
“There would have been a very surprised customer,” prosecutor Ron Davies suggested to Australian Federal Police detective Wayne Morrell, who was in charge of the substitution operation.
“I’d assume so, yes,” Det Morrell said.
Earlier in the day, Scarborough travel agent John Hodgeson had told the court how someone “resembling” Mr Segaar, and possibly of Dutch heritage, had visited him on two occasions to ask about holidays to southwest WA and the southeast Pacific.
He never managed to book those holidays, Mr Hodgeson said, after police visited the travel agent to enquire about his potential client.
The jury trial before Justice John McKechnie continues.
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