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$6.5m worth of cocaine confiscated in Shanghai
     2014-September-1  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

    SHANGHAI police — with the help from the United States — have seized 70 kilograms of cocaine in the country’s biggest single haul in recent years, media said.

    Police were tipped off about a suspect shipping container from Peru by U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officials, Xinhua said.

    “By analyzing phone messages and e-mails of a Mexican drug cartel member who had been murdered, the U.S. DEA said the container would arrive in Shanghai on Aug. 18, from where it would be put on board a ship destined for New Zealand,” Xinhua reported Saturday.

    Police and customs officials searched the ship upon its arrival in Shanghai and found the cocaine.

    Xinhua said the haul was “the largest amount ever recovered by Chinese police in a single case in recent years.”

    The U.S. street value of the drugs was more than US$6.5 million, according to the most recent estimates from the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime.

    China’s Ministry of Public Security said it had “in recent years strengthened cooperation with foreign agencies including the DEA,” the Xinhua report said.

    No information about the case could be found on the ministry’s website or online blog.

    Drugs that are illegally imported into China often come through its porous southern borders around the Mekong. But instances of cocaine from South America “have been on the rise,” Xinhua said.

    The Chinese authorities have mounted a crackdown on drug use in recent months, detaining celebrities including Jaycee Chan, 31, the son of Hong Kong movie star Jackie Chan. (SD-Agencies)

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