Hong Kong seizes HK$1.4b suspected drugs over summer as traffickers target students

Hong Kong customs has smashed an international drug trafficking network over the summer, seizing 6.1 tonnes of suspected narcotics worth more than HK$1.4 billion (US$178.5 million) and arresting 150 people as syndicates actively recruited students during the holiday period. Acting head of the Customs and Excise Department’s drug investigation bureau Wong Ngar-lun said on Tuesday that real-time intelligence exchanges with overseas law enforcement agencies helped dismantle complex, multilayered...