The Judiciary Police (PJ) arrested two men from Taiwan who were attempting to smuggle heroin with a street value of 170,000 patacas from their island to the mainland, when they arrived at the local airport on Sunday on a flight from Cambodia – where they had picked up the drugs after departing from Taiwan for the Southeast Asian country, PJ spokesman Ho Chan Nam said during a special press conference yesterday.
Ho identified the two suspects as a 48-year-old surnamed Liu and a 51-year-old surnamed Hsu.
After assessing intelligence, the Judiciary Police realised that a Taiwan-based gang was planning to smuggle drugs from Cambodia to a third destination via Macau. During regular surveillance of flights arriving at the local airport, PJ officers identified two “suspicious” passengers on a flight from Cambodia arriving at the local airport on Sunday afternoon, according to Ho.
Various items of evidence of the heroin-trafficking case are displayed in a pressroom of the Judiciary Police (PJ) headquarters in Zape yesterday.
PJ officers escort the two hooded Taiwanese suspects to a PJ vehicle outside the PJ headquarters yesterday. Photos: Iong Tat Choi
