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Biggest cocaine haul

Police in Shenzhen City have detained 10 suspects and seized 1.3 tons of cocaine worth more than 1 billion yuan (US$160 million), according to the public security department of south China鈥檚 Guangdong Province.

A statement released by the department on Tuesday called it the 鈥渂iggest amount of cocaine seized in the country.鈥

The police received a tip-off in July 2017 and set up a task force. In August, they arrested five suspects and confiscated 40 kilograms of cocaine in a residential area in Shenzhen. Following the suspects鈥 interrogation, the police found three more suspects in Guangzhou in February attempting to smuggle 1,291kg of cocaine.


 

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