Police are investigating local links to one of Australia's largest heroin busts after a third Hong Kong student was accused of being involved.
University student Nelson Wong Tak-fat, 22, was in a Sydney jail last night charged with helping to smuggle 13.6 kilograms of the drug into Australia.
On Monday two Hong Kong accountancy students in Adelaide, Yu Shing-cheng, 18, and girlfriend Siu Ki-eng, 19, appeared in court charged with having taken delivery of the drugs.
The heroin, worth A$14 million (HK$75.3 million), was discovered by police at Adelaide airport hidden in five marble pedestals sent from Thailand.
Yesterday a Narcotics Bureau officer in Hong Kong confirmed SAR police were liaising with the Australian Federal Police Force. He refused to reveal any further details about a possible Hong Kong connection.
Wong's lawyer George Hovan said his client, a resident in Australia for around six years, was being detained at Metropolitan Remand Centre in Long Bay jail.