Man found with two million pills jailed

A man was jailed for 2.5 years yesterday for possessing more than two million drug tablets - the most seized in Hong Kong.

Chan Chun-kau, 44, had 2,199,272 tablets - mostly tranquilisers such as diazepam, and Viagra - in Shamshuipo on December 21 last year, the District Court was told yesterday.

Anti-narcotics officers first found 80 Viagra tablets on Chan in Un Chau Street and later 1,930,281 other tablets in a 10th-floor flat in a nearby factory building.

Two days later, the officers found 6,106 Viagra tablets in another flat.

The court was told the value of the drugs was $11.5 million.

Sentencing him, Judge Fergal Sweeney said Chan's reason for keeping the drugs was 'very suspicious'.