Ex-professor ‘in drugs gang’
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A FORMER chemistry professor has been identified by police as part of a gang which cooked up synthetic drugs for sale across the country.
The 50-year-old former academic surnamed Lu had “a set of recipes for producing methcathinone,” a drug similar to methamphetamine, which he provided to dealers, China Business News reported yesterday.
Lu “worked as a professor of chemistry at a university” in Xi’an, the capital of the northwestern province of Shaanxi, before teaming up with a drug manufacturer surnamed Chen in 2013, the newspaper cited police as saying.
Police detained Chen and six other people after finding 128 kilograms of methcathinone at a manufacturing facility in Shaanxi, along with 2,000 kilograms of ingredients, last May, the report added.
Police said yesterday that they had arrested a total of 17 people for producing the drug.
China has 14 million drug users, about one percent of the population, and their numbers have been increasing by an annual average of 36 percent, according to government data.
Use of synthetic drugs such as crystal meth and methcathinone, which can induce euphoric highs, are reported to be growing in rural areas.
Authorities deployed helicopters, speedboats and paramilitary police to seize three tons of methamphetamine last year in a raid in the southern province of Guangdong.
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