Fugitive Comanchero boss Mark Buddle has touched down in Victoria forward of a court docket look over allegations he imported about $40 million price of medicine.

Australian Federal Law enforcement officials escorted the 37-year-old on a chartered flight from Darwin to Melbourne on Friday morning to face costs over the cocaine haul.

He’s anticipated to look in Melbourne Magistrates’ Courtroom on Friday and be charged with one rely of importing a business amount of a border managed drug and one rely of conspiring to import a business amount of a border managed drug.

Each offences carry a most sentence of life in jail. 

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Buddle was arrested at Darwin airport on Wednesday after being deported from Turkey a day earlier.

He remained underneath police guard amid safety issues because the Northern Territory Native Courtroom granted an order for him to be extradited to Victoria.

Buddle is accused of importing greater than 160kg of cocaine into Melbourne in Could final yr.

The costs stem from Operation Ironside, which monitored communications shared utilizing the ANOM app.

The app was arrange by authorities underneath the guise of providing organised crime figures a secure encrypted messaging service when in actuality it was being monitored by the AFP and FBI.

Greater than 250 individuals have been charged in Australia underneath the operation.