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TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1991

$133M WORTH OF HEROIN SEIZED IN HK/US JOINT OPERATION

ANTI-DRUG FIGHTERS IN HONG KONG AND THE UNITED STATES HAVE ARRESTED NINE MEN AND SEIZED ABOUT $133 MILLION WORTH OF NO. 4 HEROIN IN A JOINT OPERATION WHICH WAS TODAY (TUESDAY).

SUSPECTED

COMPLETED

MOUNTED

SIMULTANEOUSLY IN

BOTH

(MONDAY), POLICE BELIEVED THE OPERATION HAD SYNDICATE ALLEGEDLY SPECIALISED IN EXPORTING MARKETS.

PLACES SINCE NEUTRALISED A SUSPECTED DRUGS TO THE AMERICAN

YESTERDAY

FOLLOWING TWO MONTHS OF INVESTIGATION AND CO-ORDINATION BETWEEN THE TWO FORCES, THE U.S. DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION 32, (DEA) OFFICERS YESTERDAY ARRESTED TWO HONG KONG MEN, AGED 28 AND WHEN THEY WERE ABOUT TO DELIVER 17 KILOGRAMS OF SUSPECTED NO. 4

BUYERS INSIDE A HEROIN TO DEA UNDERCOVER AGENTS POSED AS

HOTEL IN

MANHATTAN.

ONE OF THE ARRESTED MEN WAS A 28-YEAR-OLD SAILOR ARRIVED FROM A CONTAINER VESSEL COMING FROM THE SOUTHEAST ASIAN REGION.

MEN, A HONG

IN RESPECTIVELY,

RONG NEW

MORB DEA OFFICIALS LATER ALSO TOOK IN TWO CHINESE AND AN AMERICAN CHINESE AGED 29 AND 43 YORK.

TIME AT THE SAME

IN HONG KONG, OFFICERS FROM THE POLICE TSUI EAST AND NARCOTICS BUREAU (NB) RAIDED A HOTEL ROOM IN TSIM SHA ARRESTED FIVE LOCAL MEN, AGED BETWEEN 38 AND 45.

·

INCLUDING THOSE FROM THE DURING THE OPERATION, NB OFFICIERS BUREAU'S FINANCIAL INVESTIGATION GROUP HAD UNCOVERED ABOUT $3 MILLION WORTH OF ALLEGED DRUG-RELATED ASSET.

POLICE INVESTIGATIONS ARE CONTINUING.

ELECTORS REMINDED TO REPORT CHANGE OF RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS

REGISTRATION AND RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS, THE

REGISTERED ELECTORS ARE REMINDED TO KEEP THE ELECTORAL OFFICE INFORMED OF ANY CHANGE OF REGISTRATION OFFICER, MR K.T. LAI, SAID TODAY (TUESDAY).

"OVER 30,000 ELECTORS HAD THEIR ELECTORAL REGISTER FOR LOSS OF CONTACT DURING 1990," HE SAID.

NAMES

REMOVED

FROM

THE

THESE ELECTORS

WERE REPORTED то HAVE MOVED OUT OF RECORDED ADDRESSES OR THEIR PREMISES HAD BECOME UNOCCUPIED AUGUST DEMOLISHED DURING THE HOUSEHOLD VISITS CONDUCTED BETWEEN OCTOBER LAST YEAR.

THEIR

OR AND

/ENQUIRY LETTERS

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