Hong Kong customs seize a haul of cocaine with an estimated market value of $13 million.
Head of Customs Drug Investigation Bureau Hui Wai-ming holds the seized cocaine during a news conference in Hong Kong, Thursday, April 4, 2019. A haul of cocaine with an estimated market value of $13 million has been seized in Hong Kong, customs agents said Thursday.
The customs service in the semi-autonomy Chinese territory said the operation Wednesday that targeted a private residential apartment in the Shatin neighborhood netted 91 kilograms of the drug — making it the single largest in terms of value and amount outside of the territory’s ports. Agents then took him back to the apartment where the remainder of the cocaine was found. Hui said the 41-year-old suspect was a Hong Kong resident with connections to the territory’s organized crime groups known as triads. More arrests were possible in the case, he said.“They are not fully operational yet, therefore there isn’t a huge amount of drugs distributed to the market yet,” Hui told reporters at a news conference.
As a major Asian port city, Hong Kong is considered a key transit point for contraband from illegal drugs to endangered wildlife parts. Much of that is bound for mainland China or Southeast Asia where drug laws tend to be much stricter.
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