Hong Kong Customs have discovered 48 kilograms of suspected cocaine in a shipping container and shut down a cocaine manufacturing centre in San Po Kong.
The initial haul, thought to be worth a whopping HKD51.6 million, was found in the form of 48 slabs in the innermost part of a shipping container at the Tsing Yi Examination Compound last Wednesday.
The container was labeled as “cocoa beans”, which, let’s face it, is about as close as it was ever going to get to the actual contents.
A follow-up investigation then led Customs officials to the suspected cocaine factory on Friday. There, they seized drug-making apparatus as well as a small quantity of dangerous drugs and several kilograms of drug additives, e.g. all the baking soda, painkillers and crap they cut it with before dishing it out in Wan Chai and LKF.
Three men and a woman between the ages of 22 and 60 have been arrested for manufacturing and trafficking dangerous drugs, and will appear at Tsuen Wan Magistrates’ Courts today.
The maximum penalty is life imprisonment and a fine of HKD5 million.
