600 kilograms of ecstasy, with a street value of NT$3 billion was seized in Jan. with a suspect arrested this week
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/02/15
By: Central News Agency
TAIPEI (CNA) — Some 600 kilograms of ecstasy, with a street value of NT$3 billion
Law enforcement officials with the seized drug shipment. (By Central News Agency)
(about US$100 million), was seized in Taipei last month and the main suspect was arrested this week, the Investigation Bureau said Wednesday.
The drug bust, which was a record second-grade drug haul in Taiwan, was carried out by investigators based on a tipoff received in December 2017 that a drug trafficking ring was preparing to smuggle in a large shipment of ecstasy from China around the Lunar New Year holiday, the bureau said.
After screening thousands of customs clearance documents, a task force led by Keelung prosecutors and customs officers found 977 parcels of narcotics, weighing 600 kilograms in total, hidden in three containers that purportedly contained clothing, according to the bureau. [FULL STORY]