The wife of a Hong Kong man accused of helping to plot Australia's biggest heroin deal returned to the territory days before police and Customs officers arrested her husband.
June Wong Sui-kwan, 35, who is not a suspect, was questioned by Hong Kong Narcotics Bureau officers on Wednesday and released without charge after police raided a home registered in the name of her husband, Fan Po-chong.
The details emerged yesterday as 18 men, including seven Hong Kong residents, appeared in a Sydney court charged with importing, possessing and assisting the importation of a prohibited narcotic.
According to a statement handed to the court by Australian Federal Police agent Brendan Slape, Ms Wong travelled to Sydney with her husband and two other suspects, Alfred Chung Tat-sang, 41, and Francis Li Kai-kong, 35, on August 7.
After Chung was stopped, searched and released the suspects were put under surveillance 'which led Australian Federal Police to believe they were making preparations for an importation of narcotics', the statement said.
Ms Wong returned to Hong Kong on October 5, Magistrate Allan Moore heard.
