Two arrested in HK$204m cocaine bust

Police have cracked a cocaine trafficking case involving 225 kilograms of suspected cocaine - the largest amount so far this year - which was hidden in nine steel beam boxes and worth about HK$204 million. 

The Narcotics Bureau announced Sunday that two men, aged 22 and 29 years old, were arrested at Ping Che container yard last Friday (May 17). They will be charged with trafficking in dangerous drugs and the case will be mentioned at Fanling Magistrates' Courts tomorrow (May 20).

The 225 kg of cocaine bricks were hidden in two containers stuffed with scrap metal, weighing 40 tonnes in total, and shipped from South America. 

Superintendent Wilson Tam Wai-shun said police are looking into the source of the suspected cocaine and whether the batch of drugs was set for local sale or overseas.