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/ 12 January 2001

FIVE HELD IN MASSIVE MANDRAX BUST

By Staff Reporter
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POLICE have confiscated one million Mandrax tablets, with an estimated street value of R40m, at a Durban warehouse and arrested five suspects, aged between 14 and 37. The tablets were found concealed in soft animal dolls imported from China.

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