Drug report doubted
NZPA-AP Hong Kong Hong Kong’s Narcotics Commissioner, Mr Gordon Mortimer, has cast doubt on a United Nations report that singles out Hong Kong as a trans-shipment point for heroin destined for the United States and Australia.
“It is doubtful that Hong Kong is used in such a way on a large scale because of the double risks and cost to traffickers in smuggling heroin into Hong Kong and out again,” he said yesterday. He said that most heroin smuggled from Asia to the United States and Australia did not come from Hong Kong. Mr Mortimer was responding to a report released by the International Narcotics Control Board in Vienna recently. “Certainly, arrests have been made in these two countries, from time to time, of persons smuggling drugs from Hong Kong, but the quantities involved were small when compared with the bulk quantities seized here,” he said.
“These arrests were often made as a result of information provided by Hong Kong to the authorities overseas.”
Chinese and Hong Kong customs officials were alert to the existence of an in-
direct route through China and arrests of smugglers using this route had taken place in China and Hong Kong,” Mr Mortimer said.
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