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 From Hong Kong's Information Services Department
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July 18, 2005
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Crime
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Heroin haul sees airport arrests

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Customs & Excise Department

Two men have been arrested at the airport after Customs officers found 2.4kgs of heroin worth $880,000 in two waist girdles in their luggage.

 

Aged 42 and 45, they were about to depart for Sydney yesterday. It is the first case of heroin smuggling destined for Australia detected at the airport by Customs this year.

 

The local men will be charged with trafficking.