Customs Make Largest Airport Drug Bust Of The Year

Customs officers have made the largest drug bust of the year so far at Hong Kong International Airport, seizing 31 kilos of liquid cocaine along with 910 grammes of ketamine and 520 grammes of methamphetamine at an address in Yau Ma Tei. The suspected drugs have a street value of about HK$45 million.

The liquid cocaine was found inside 45 bottles of wine that had arrived in an air cargo consignment from the United States on Monday. Officers then arrested a 40-year man in connection with the case in Yau Ma Tei. The ketamine and methamphetamine were found at a residential address, along with a set of suspected drug paraphernalia.

Officers also discovered about a kilo of suspected cocaine, with a street value of HK$1.4 million, in an air parcel that had arrived from Canada on September 5. A 36-year-old woman in Yau Ma Tei was then arrested.

The arrested woman has been charged with one count of trafficking in a dangerous drug, while the arrested man has been charged with two counts of trafficking in a dangerous drug and one count of possession of apparatus fit and intended for the inhalation of a dangerous drug. They will appear at Kowloon City Magistrates' Courts on Saturday.