CRIME | Judiciary Police seize 9.3 kg of cocaine in historic operation

PJ agents escort a drug trafficking suspect outside an inn in the Barra neighborhood

Agents show the evidence of the crime

The Judiciary Police have apprehended a Turkish national and two Hong Kong residents yesterday morning in a guesthouse located on the Praça Ponte e Horta. The arrest is allegedly in relation to the second major drug trafficking case to have emerged since the region’s establishment.
According to the authorities, the Turkish suspect, aged 45, entered the region from Brazil through Dubai and Taiwan, carrying the seized cocaine weighing 9.3 kilograms to the value of HKD25 million on the black market.
“He arrived in Macau at around 10 p.m. last night and checked into this hotel right away,” said Wong Chi Hong, the authorities’ spokesman.
The investigators raided the suspect’s room and discovered the other two suspects, a 34 year-old man and a 42 year-
old woman from the neighboring HKSAR. At the time of the raid, they were in the midst of exchanging the cocaine, which was delivered hand-held and brought into the territory wrapped in bed sheets.
The Turkish suspect was employed by an unknown syndicate from overseas for USD5,000 to bring the drugs into the territory. It has been said that he has made more than one visit to the region but it remains unconfirmed whether or not his previous visits were for the express purpose of drug smuggling.
The other two suspects also admitted to the police authorities to being hired for over HKD10,000 to come to the region to receive the contraband. The case requires a joint investigation with the Hong Kong authorities to identify further details of the smuggling operation. AU