HK customs seizes record 649kg of cocaine
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00:00 UTC+8 July 7, 2012
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HONG Kong customs officers announced yesterday that they have made the city's biggest ever cocaine bust, seizing 649 kilograms of the drug worth US$98 million.
The drugs were in a shipping container that arrived at Hong Kong's port from Ecuador, said John Lee, head of the Customs Drug Investigation Bureau. He said he believed most of it was destined for Southeast Asia or Chinese mainland.
The container was one of a batch that the US Drug Enforcement Administration had flagged to Hong Kong officials for further inspection. Customs officers discovered the drugs after they followed the shipment when it was driven on Wednesday from the port to a collection point in Hong Kong's rural New Territories, where it was picked up by two men that authorities believe are members of a local drug syndicate.
When they inspected the shipment, officers found 541 bricks of cocaine hidden in a shipment of laurel wood.
The driver and the two men were arrested.
Lee said Hong Kong's customs department has been working with the US DEA and South American law enforcement agencies this year to combat drug trafficking.
The seizure tops a haul last year of 560 kilograms of cocaine worth about US$77 million found in a suburban warehouse.
The drugs were in a shipping container that arrived at Hong Kong's port from Ecuador, said John Lee, head of the Customs Drug Investigation Bureau. He said he believed most of it was destined for Southeast Asia or Chinese mainland.
The container was one of a batch that the US Drug Enforcement Administration had flagged to Hong Kong officials for further inspection. Customs officers discovered the drugs after they followed the shipment when it was driven on Wednesday from the port to a collection point in Hong Kong's rural New Territories, where it was picked up by two men that authorities believe are members of a local drug syndicate.
When they inspected the shipment, officers found 541 bricks of cocaine hidden in a shipment of laurel wood.
The driver and the two men were arrested.
Lee said Hong Kong's customs department has been working with the US DEA and South American law enforcement agencies this year to combat drug trafficking.
The seizure tops a haul last year of 560 kilograms of cocaine worth about US$77 million found in a suburban warehouse.
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