Hong Kong police sergeant may have stolen 25kg in crystal meth from scene of record-breaking bust he supervised, sources say

‘The officer involved was a team leader in last week’s operation and [had the authority to] direct away colleagues who were guarding the seizure,’ police source says

A constable arrested alongside the veteran officer had been responsible for guarding the drugs at the scene, according to another source

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Sources believe a veteran police officer arrested at The Royal Garden hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui on Thursday may have removed drugs from the scene of a major bust he was in charge of last week. Photo: May Tse

Published: 8:42pm, 8 May 2020Updated: 2:58pm, 24 Jul 2020

A Hong Kong police officer arrested in connection with the seizure of 25kg of drugs worth HK$12 million is believed to have orchestrated its theft from the scene of a bust he was personally in charge of last week, according to police sources.

If true, it would mean the announced record seizure of 296kg of Ice, a form of methamphetamine, actually involved 321kg.

Sources said the station sergeant, who was arrested along with a constable in connection with the missing drugs, was in charge of the nighttime raid on an empty ground-floor shop in Jordan on Tuesday last week that produced the massive haul.

If 25kg of crystal meth connected to the arrest of two Hong Kong police officers may have been spirited away from the site of the biggest meth bust in city history, sources say. Photo: Shutterstock

“The officer involved was a team leader in last week’s operation and [had the authority to] direct away his colleagues who were guarding the seizure in the shop,” the source said, adding some of the nylon bags used to store the meth had been sliced open at the time of the raid.

The arrested constable, meanwhile, had been responsible for guarding the drugs at the scene, according to another source.

The missing Ice was recovered after officers from the Mong Kok special duty squad arrested the veteran officer, 41, and two others – a 29-year-old woman and a 43-year-old woman – at the Royal Garden Hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui in the early hours of Thursday.