An Adelaide woman is facing possible life imprisonment if convicted after being charged with trying to import 62kg of cocaine with a value of around $20 million into Australia.

The cocaine was initially intercepted in February after border officers found 62 individually wrapped packages of powder in a consignment from Germany.

The drugs were hidden inside mechanical equipment, which was addressed to a business in Adelaide.

A business in Kensington Park in Adelaide's east was searched later that month, which ultimately led to the arrest of an Adelaide man in July.

The investigation led to a 30-year-old Prospect woman being arrested and charged yesterday.

She has been charged with one count of importation of a commercial quantity of a border-controlled drug, one count of attempt to poss

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