Guangzhou cracks down on drug smuggling
2018-10-30 15:30:18 chinadaily.com.cn Mo Hong'e
Bags of drugs are on display at a press conference in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, Oct 30, 2018. (Photo/chinadaily.com.cn)
Customs officers in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, have cracked down on an increasing number of drug smuggling cases involving using human beings in the previous three months.
Zheng Jun, deputy director of Guangzhou Customs' anti-smuggling bureau, said in Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport alone, customs officers have detained 8 suspects who used their bodies to smuggle drugs in the third quarter of the year.
"And customs officers seized a total of 6.6 kilograms of drugs after cracking down on the 8 cases involved in using human beings to smuggle drugs," Zheng told a press conference in Guangzhou on Tuesday.
Both figures have witnessed a big growth when compared with the same period of the previous year, he said.
A press conference is held in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, Oct 30, 2018. (Photo/chinadaily.com.cn)
It is the first time Customs officers seized methamphetamine, commonly known as ice, from a human being, said Zheng.
Customs officers from Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport detained a foreigner and seized ice weighing a total of 291 grams on Sept 22.
The man admitted to have swallowed 6 bags of ice to help a foreign drug gang smuggle ice into the mainland before he boarded the plane.
"And it is the first time that ice was investigated when it was being smuggled into Guangdong province, and it is a new trend that ice has begun to be smuggled into the province after years of great efforts made by Guangdong police in the fight against drug production in the past years," Zheng said.
Bags of drugs are on display at a press conference in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, Oct 30, 2018. (Photo/chinadaily.com.cn)
Zheng promised to further expand Guangdong police fight against drug smuggling events in the southern metropolis in the years to come.
Customs officers in Guangzhou have seized a total of 59.5 kilograms of smuggled drugs, detaining a total of 19 suspects, in the third quarter this year, according to Zheng.
The drugs that have been seized by Guangzhou customs officers included ice, heroin and cocaine.
