The bottles were wrapped in different red wine packaging.
Drug dealers in Hong Kong used wine bottles to disguise HK$20 million worth of suspected liquid cocaine, police have said after a raid on a flat where four people were arrested.
The three women and one man, aged between 19 and 24, were arrested on suspicion of trafficking in a dangerous drug, an offence which carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment and a HK$5 million fine.Winners and losers in the endless global war on drugs“Officers seized the nine bottles in different locations inside the flat and each bottle contained two litres of suspected liquid cocaine,” Senior Inspector Wong Chi-man of the Narcotics Bureau said.
By midday on Friday, the four suspected traffickers were being held at police headquarters in Wan Chai, and none of them had been charged.On Monday, a local resident aged 29 was caught with HK$25.5 million of suspected cocaine in his car boot in the car park of Tin Fu Court, Tin Shui Wai. Police believed the drugs were destined for entertainment venues in Kowloon and the New Territories.
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