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Hong Kong Customs seizes drugs worth over $1.4 billion in joint anti-narcotics operation (with photos)
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     Hong Kong Customs conducted a large-scale anti-narcotics operation at Hong Kong International Airport from May 1 to August 31 this year to combat drug trafficking activities by aviation channels. During the operation, Hong Kong Customs, Mainland and overseas law enforcement agencies detected a total of 424 drug cases, seizing around 6.1 tons of suspected drugs including ketamine, cannabis, methamphetamine, cocaine, MDMA and heroin, with an estimated market value of over $1.4 billion. One hundred and fifty persons suspected to be connected with the cases were arrested.
      
     During the operation, Hong Kong Customs collaborated with 21 Mainland and overseas law enforcement agencies, maintained close and real-time exchanges of intelligence and conducted joint assessments to effectively track and intercept drug trafficking activities. The Anti-Smuggling Bureau of Mainland Customs, the Federal Revenue of Brazil, German Customs, French Customs, the New Zealand Customs Service, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the South African Police Service, the Thai Customs Department and Turkish Customs also successfully detected drug trafficking cases in their respective regions.
      
     Hong Kong Customs has been closely monitoring the trends of drug markets and smuggling channels, and has striven to intercept drugs trafficking activities at import, transit and export levels based on risk assessment and intelligence analysis. Customs will continue to make necessary adjustments in strategy and deployments in accordance with changes in the drug trafficking trends and deepen co-operation with overseas enforcement agencies to fight against cross-boundary narcotics trafficking activities.
      
     Customs reminds members of the public to stay alert and not to participate in drug trafficking activities for monetary return. They must not accept hiring or delegation from another party to carry controlled items into and out of Hong Kong. They are also reminded not to carry unknown items for other people.
      
     Under the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, trafficking in a dangerous drug is a serious offence. The maximum penalty upon conviction is a fine of $5 million and life imprisonment.

     Members of the public may report any suspected drug trafficking activities to Customs' 24-hour hotline 182 8080 or its dedicated crime-reporting email account (crimereport@customs.gov.hk) or online form (eform.cefs.gov.hk/form/ced002).
 

 
 
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Hong Kong Customs conducted a large-scale anti-narcotics operation at Hong Kong International Airport from May 1 to August 31 this year to combat drug trafficking activities by aviation channels. During the operation, Hong Kong Customs, Mainland and overseas law enforcement agencies detected a total of 424 drug cases, seizing around 6.1 tons of suspected drugs including ketamine, cannabis, methamphetamine, cocaine, MDMA and heroin, with an estimated market value of over $1.4 billion. One hundred and fifty persons suspected to be connected with the cases were arrested. Photo shows some of the suspected drugs seized.
Hong Kong Customs conducted a large-scale anti-narcotics operation at Hong Kong International Airport from May 1 to August 31 this year to combat drug trafficking activities by aviation channels. During the operation, Hong Kong Customs, Mainland and overseas law enforcement agencies detected a total of 424 drug cases, seizing around 6.1 tons of suspected drugs including ketamine, cannabis, methamphetamine, cocaine, MDMA and heroin, with an estimated market value of over $1.4 billion. One hundred and fifty persons suspected to be connected with the cases were arrested. Photo shows some of the suspected drugs seized.