$25m worth of drugs seized in Sydney

Police have seized drugs with a street value of more than $25 million and charged a man believed to be the main dealer.

Earlier this week, detectives from Strike Force Taipan raided an Artarmon storage unit, on Sydney's lower north, seizing a large amount of prohibited drugs hidden inside tetra juice boxes.

Pending confirmation by drug analysis, it's believed the drugs include 2kg of brown heroin, almost 14kg of ice and 11.5kg of black tar heroin.

Detectives arrested a 43-year-old Australian-Iranian dual citizen when he visited the storage units on Thursday afternoon.

He was charged with two counts of commercial supply of a large commercial quantity of prohibited drugs and was refused bail to face Hornsby Local Court later on Friday.

Following that arrest, police raided several more units, houses, financial institutions and a food importation business at Glendenning, in western Sydney.

A further 166g of brown heroin, 7.5kg of ice and 36kg of black tar heroin were seized.

All the drugs seized, totalling almost 70kg, will undergo drug analysis.

More than $300,000 in cash, a large range of jewellery and valuable securities were also seized.

Police are examining juice containers totalling more than one tonne to determine their contents.

Anyone with information about the possession or distribution of illicit drugs can report it anonymously to Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

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$25m worth of drugs seized in Sydney