Haul from the mainland is enough to make $100 million worth of the drug
Police have seized more than three tonnes of chemicals they believe were intended for the manufacture of Ecstasy. They estimated the materials could have made about $100 million worth of the party drug.
The chemicals, hidden among barrels containing oil, were found in two containers shipped from the mainland on Wednesday and bound for Indonesia, a source said.
The seizure, which is understood to be the biggest ever of this kind in Hong Kong, was made by Narcotics Bureau officers with the assistance of customs after they were tipped off by mainland authorities, the same source said.
A police spokesman said no one had been arrested in Hong Kong although an investigation was under way.
Tests were being conducted on a solution thought to contain the Ecstasy ingredient MDP2P (methylenedioxy-phenyl-2-propanone).