A 61-year-old unemployed man with a market value of 11.32 million cocaine in the back of an office chair in the Netherlands

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Written by: Chen Kangzhi, Huang Diwen

2020-06-03 19:43

The Hong Kong Customs randomly inspected a batch of office chairs arriving in Hong Kong by air from the Netherlands at the Hong Kong International Airport the day before (1st) and found that the back cushions contained suspected cocaine with a total weight of 10 kg and a market value of about 11.32 million yuan. One was 61 years old. The unemployed man was arrested on suspicion of "trafficking in dangerous drugs". The case will appear in West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts tomorrow (4th).

The customs inspected a group of office chairs that were airlifted from the Netherlands to the port, and revealed that the chair back cushions were modified and put into suspected cocaine.

Customs today (3rd) talks about the process of solving the case. It means that the Customs Air Freight Group found a batch of 32 office chairs that were airlifted by the Dutch warehouse during the random inspection by the X-ray machine at the cargo terminal of Hong Kong International Airport the day before (1st) There are 10 pieces of back cushions with suspected cocaine hidden in them. Officers conducted surveillance delivery operations yesterday (2nd) and arrested a 61-year-old unemployed man in a vacant unit in an industrial building in Kwai Chung. He was detained for suspected "selling of dangerous drugs" and will be detained in the west (4th) tomorrow The Kowloon Magistrates' Court appeared in court.

Lin Zelin, senior investigation director of the Drug Investigation Section 3 of the Drug Investigation Division of the Hong Kong Customs, said that the number of drug trafficking cases this year has increased by 1.5 times compared with the same period last year, and the weight of cocaine seized has increased from 5.4 kg to 75 kg. Lin Zhi said that the case of about 10 kilograms of cocaine being airlifted from the Netherlands to Hong Kong was relatively rare. It is believed that the batch of cocaine was intended to be supplied to the local market. He reiterated that the Hong Kong Customs will step up the crackdown and interception of drugs arriving overseas. He emphasized that the sale of dangerous drugs is a serious crime. The maximum penalty is a fine of 5 million yuan and life imprisonment.

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