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Clifford Lo

Hong Kong police have arrested a couple after officers seized HK$60 million (US$7.7 million) worth of cannabis buds in the New Territories.
The force said on Tuesday that its investigation had led officers to intercept a car driven by a 44-year-old man on Yuen Long’s Tai Tong Shan Road a day earlier.
Chief Inspector Tai Yuk-lun of the New Territories North’s anti-triad squad said officers seized 10kg (22lbs) of cannabis buds from the vehicle and arrested the driver on suspicion of trafficking in a dangerous drug.
Police discovered another 260kg of cannabis buds in a follow-up raid on the man’s flat in Muk Kiu Tau Tsuen off Kung Um Road, he added. The locations of the intercepted car and the flat were about 2km (1.2 miles) apart.
Officers arrested the man’s wife, 43, who was on the premises at the time of the raid.
The force said the 270kg haul had an estimated street value of HK$60 million.
“A preliminary investigation showed the flat was used as a drug storage facility and the couple jointly managed the facility,” Tai said.
The investigation also revealed the drugs had been stored on the premises for over a month, with the narcotic intended for unlicensed entertainment venues across the city, he added.
The two suspects, who are both jobless, were still in police custody as of Tuesday evening.
The force said it was still investigating the origin and distribution network of the seized drugs, adding that further arrests were possible.
In Hong Kong, trafficking in a dangerous drug is punishable by up to life in prison and a HK$5 million fine.
In the first seven months of this year, the combined seizures of five major illegal drugs – cannabis, cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin and ketamine – rose by 2.6 per cent to 6.58 tonnes, compared with 6.41 tonnes over the same period in 2023.
The amount of cannabis seized between January and July this year rose by 108 per cent to 3.02 tonnes from 1.45 tonnes in the same period last year.


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