The Hong Kong Police Force held a press conference on the 25th to announce that they recently cracked a case of using frozen goods to hide and transport drugs. They smashed a large drug warehouse and seized about 520 kilograms of suspected cocaine, its market value is about HK $430 million. In the operation, police arrested two men.
When introducing the case, Senior Inspector Tong Wai-kwok of the Narcotics Investigation Bureau of the Hong Kong Police Force said that the police intercepted two local men at a private residential building in Tseung Kwan O on the 23rd, a bag of suspected cocaine weighing 2 kg was found in one of the men’s carry-on bags. The two men were then escorted by the police back to their declared residence for further investigation. A further 259 packages of suspected cocaine weighing 2 kg each were found at the premises. Police then arrested two people for“Trafficking in dangerous drugs”.
The two arrested persons, aged 22 and 23, reported that they were unemployed and are being held for investigation. The case will come before the Kwun Tong Magistrates’ Court on 26 February.
Tang Weiguo said that after preliminary investigation, the cocaine is suspected to be smuggled from South to Hong Kong in the form of cargo. In addition, the drug cartels simultaneously rented an industrial flat in Kwai Chung. The drugs were concealed in more than 1,500 boxes of frozen goods and transported to Hong Kong from overseas through legitimate logistics companies. The drugs were delivered to industrial premises in Kwai Chung, where they were disassembled and repackaged, re-use of transport companies to transfer drugs to private homes in Tseung Kwan O for storage and distribution.