Chemistry professor arrested
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A CHEMISTRY professor at a university in Wuhan, capital of central China’s Hubei Province, has been arrested on suspicion of producing a psychoactive drug and selling it to overseas buyers, police said yesterday.
Police gave his surname as Zhang, an associate professor at an unnamed but “famous” university in the city.
Police said he had been a visiting academic in Australia when he found psychoactive drugs were in demand, but hard to find.
According to police Zhang founded a chemical company and recruited staff to produce drugs and sell them through mail order.
The business came to light last November, when local customs agents checked overseas-bound parcels and found at least nine contained white powder.
The powder was methylone, a psychoactive drug under heavy state restriction in China.
It is commonly used as a substitute for MDMA, popularly known as ecstacy.
On June 17, customs and police raided Zhang’s lab in Wuhan.
Eight people were arrested and about 20 kilograms of drugs were seized.
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