Four Chinese suspects charged in Philippines for carrying 460kg of crystal meth | South China Morning Post
Four Chinese nationals have been charged with possession of drugs worth an estimated HK$1.2 million in the Philippines, the country's Department of Justice announced on Monday.
The suspects were arrested during a raid on a warehouse on Friday in the Pampanga provincial capital San Fernando.
Drug enforcement agency chief Arturo Cacdac Jnr said police found around 460kg of crystal methamphetamine, as well as large amounts of hydrochloride and ephedrine, marking one of the biggest drug busts of the year.
Cacdac described the case, which has been in the works for more than six months, as a "big blow to syndicates".
The four Chinese suspects, three men and one woman, have been identified by police as Jason Lee, Willy Yap and Near Tan from Xiamen and Ying Huang from Fujian. They underwent inquest proceedings accompanied by a state-provided defence attorney on Monday.
Last month, a court in Manila sentenced three Chinese nationals to life in prison after they were arrested inside a methamphetamine laboratory in 2010.
The methamphetamine trade in the Philippines is believed to have links to Mexican organised crime. In February, a raid on a small operation in Lipa city, south of Manila, swept up three suspected members of the deadly Sinaloa cartel.
That raid came after months of speculation that the cartels were moving into the Philippines.
"The Mexicans are already here," drug task force chief Bartolome Tobias told the South China Morning Post in January, adding that he believed they were getting help from "Chinese drug syndicates".
....................
now, what punishment do they deserve?
a past reference may help
Four Chinese nationals have been charged with possession of drugs worth an estimated HK$1.2 million in the Philippines, the country's Department of Justice announced on Monday.
The suspects were arrested during a raid on a warehouse on Friday in the Pampanga provincial capital San Fernando.
Drug enforcement agency chief Arturo Cacdac Jnr said police found around 460kg of crystal methamphetamine, as well as large amounts of hydrochloride and ephedrine, marking one of the biggest drug busts of the year.
Cacdac described the case, which has been in the works for more than six months, as a "big blow to syndicates".
The four Chinese suspects, three men and one woman, have been identified by police as Jason Lee, Willy Yap and Near Tan from Xiamen and Ying Huang from Fujian. They underwent inquest proceedings accompanied by a state-provided defence attorney on Monday.
Last month, a court in Manila sentenced three Chinese nationals to life in prison after they were arrested inside a methamphetamine laboratory in 2010.
The methamphetamine trade in the Philippines is believed to have links to Mexican organised crime. In February, a raid on a small operation in Lipa city, south of Manila, swept up three suspected members of the deadly Sinaloa cartel.
That raid came after months of speculation that the cartels were moving into the Philippines.
"The Mexicans are already here," drug task force chief Bartolome Tobias told the South China Morning Post in January, adding that he believed they were getting help from "Chinese drug syndicates".
....................
now, what punishment do they deserve?
a past reference may help
