VIC Drug Purity Testing from International Import?

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3 June 2022
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Hi,
My friends brother has recently been charged for a drug importation offence. The thing that gets me is that the alleged drugs were substituted and a fake package was sent down under where police setup a controlled operation.

My main question is some 10 months later the police still have not obtained a purity test from the initial package of alleged drugs but state they will travel overseas shortly to obtain this and bring a sample back for testing.

Is there a law that says the drugs to be tested must be in Australia in the first place as apparently in the country they were seized in on their way to Australia they only need to rely on a preliminary test so most of the drugs are already destroyed.

Can you drug test drugs not actually here and use it in court?
 
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