CUSTOMS officers have netted their biggest haul of cocaine at Kai Tak airport, seizing four kilograms from a Hong Kong man arriving from Britain.
The cocaine, with a market value of about $8 million, was found inside a briefcase and suitcase carried by a 44-year-old passenger.
Acting on a tip-off, about 30 customs officers laid an ambush at the airport on Sunday night, and followed the unemployed man, who had arrived from London.
He was intercepted shortly before 6.30 pm as he was about to get into a taxi.
Four kilograms of cocaine packed into 28 packages were found inside false compartments in his luggage.
The head of the Customs Drug Investigation Bureau, Lawrence Wong Sau-pui, said: ''We believed the cocaine had come from Venezuela, transiting London, and was for local consumption. This was the first time the drug has been found on a passenger who arrived from Britain.