After a nearly three-year surveillance operation, the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) on Monday seized more than 860 kilograms of high-grade crystal methamphetamine and arrested nine men, including an alleged Hong Kong-based drug kingpin wanted in seven countries, in what is being dubbed as the largest drug bust in the history of the narcotics agency.
The man, identified here as 40-year old WCP, a Chinese foreign national, is suspected of being a high-ranking member of an international drug syndicate operating in China and Southeast Asia and has wanted by the governments of Hong Kong, Malaysia, the Philippines, China, the United States, Myanmar, and Indonesia for years.
“[WCP’s] syndicate has been a target of the National Narcotics Agency for three years and the subject of an intensive investigation in cooperation with authorities in Macau, Hong Kong, and Malaysia for the past year,” said BNN Deputy for Narcotics Eradication Affairs, Dedi Fauzi.
WCP and the other eight suspects, which include three other Chinese nationals in addition to one Malaysian citizen and four Indonesians, were arrested Monday afternoon by BNN officials in the parking lot of a West Jakarta shopping complex as the drugs were being transferred between vehicles.
The drugs, believed by police to have originally come from Guangdong, China, were hidden in packets of coffee and then packed into forty-two sacks, each containing approximately 20 kilograms of the methamphetamine.
The BNN declined to disclose the value of the confiscated drugs, saying that they were only worth something to those who used them.
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