Category: cocaine smuggling

Man Arrested for Carrying 59 Cocaine Tablets in His Body, Weighing about 1.2 kg

Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department detected a case of drug internal concealment at Hong Kong International Airport on Oct. 10 and seized about 1.2 kg of suspected cocaine with an estimated market value of about HK$1.2 million (approx. US$152,000). Tsang Yau-chuen, Acting Senior Investigator of the Airport Investigation Group of Customs Drug Investigation Bureau,…


German Police Bust International Cocaine Smuggling Gang

BERLIN—German police said on Tuesday that 14 people suspected of smuggling several tonnes of cocaine from South America to Germany were arrested and their decade-old trafficking route dismantled as part of an international investigation. Twenty-eight suspects are suspected of links to nine shipments totalling nearly five tonnes of cocaine, Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA)…