Australian visitors Sean Clifford, Jamaica Faletoilalo jailed for Auckland cocaine smuggling plot

In 2005, Australian banker Sean Clifford made headlines after finding A$263,000 in an alley and hiding it instead of reporting it, leading to a larceny conviction and the end of his career at Macquarie Bank. Nearly two decades later, his brief trip to New Zealand turned into months of rehab and prison as he struggled with methamphetamine addiction and a drug debt linked to a violent assault in Tasmania.

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