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Taiwan seizes US$102.29 million of drugs
2013/10/13 13:43:15
Taipei, Oct. 13 (CNA) The Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Justice apprehended members of a drug ring Saturday, seizing what it termed the largest haul of heroin and ketamine in a single case in the last two decades.
In a news conference Saturday, bureau officials said the seizure of 270 heroine bricks, weighing 103 kg, and 240 kg of ketamine, an anesthetic, are worth NT$3 billion (US$102.29 million) on the street, which would be sold as 10 million doses, or half-a-year's worth of demand in the local drug market.
Officials said the drugs were stored in 40 bags hidden among sacks of frozen taro imported from Vietnam, in a container delivered at Kaohsiung Port early last week.
Bureau agents easily detected the drugs as the bags containing drugs bore the mark, "*".
Two men, identified only by their family names, Chen and Huang, were arrested as the owners of the drugs. The drugs are said to have originated in Myanmar.
Further, officials said the seizure of the drugs and arrests were the result of three years of wiretapping by investigators, and regretted that the operation was recently hindered when the courts rejected many requests for wiretapping after national chief prosecutor Huang Shyh-ming was probed for accidentally tapping the phone of the Legislative Yuan.
(By Maubo Chang)
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