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 From Hong Kong's Information Services Department
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May 20, 2003
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Narcotics
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Ice worth $232m seized in joint operation
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Police have arrested a Hong Kong man suspected to be the ringleader of a drug trafficking syndicate in Sydney after a major drugs haul there.

 

Hong Kong Police, in a joint operation with the Australian Federal Police, seized about 90 kilograms of the drug Ice, estimated to be worth about $232 million.

 

A woman and three men, including the 44-year-old suspected ringleader, aged 35 to 44, were arrested.

 

The investigation into the drugs-trafficking syndicate was launched last June, and the suspected syndicate members in Hong Kong have been under close surveillance.