Hong Kong police arrest seven and seize about HK$20 million worth of cash and drugs in organised crime crackdown
Arrests in Chai Wan and Tsim Sha Tsui part of joint operation Thunderbolt 18, which is targeting criminals in Hong Kong, Guangdong and Macau
Hong Kong police have seized about HK$20 million (US$2.5 million) worth of cash and drugs in seven arrests over the past three days as part of the wider Thunderbolt 18 operation against organised crime.
On Monday night, police arrested three suspected drug traffickers and confiscated almost HK$2 million worth of drugs in two separate raids in Tsim Sha Tsui.
Two of the suspects, a Nigerian man, 33, and an Indonesian woman, 28, were picked up in a Chungking Mansions flat in Nathan Road.
Inside officers found 1.9kg of cocaine with an estimated street value of HK$1.9 million.
At the same time, officers intercepted another man, 27, outside nearby Mirador Mansion and found HK$80,000 worth of illegal drugs in a rucksack he was carrying.
The drugs included 13 stamp-sized doses of LSD, 296 grams of cannabis resin, and 32 grams of crack cocaine, along with 37 tablets of ecstasy.