Taiwan and the U.S. teamed up to crack down on a yacht transporting drugs worth 4.5 billion yuan

暗號「明天五點釣魚」 接毒後刺破救生筏沉海滅證

Taiwan and the U.S. jointly achieve great results in anti-drug operations! The Southern Regional Mobile Work Station of the Bureau of Investigation received information from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and learned that a batch of ketamine was about to be transported to Taiwan. After many months of surveillance, the investigation found that the yacht "Emperor's Poetry" was transporting 1,500 kilograms of ketamine with a market value of more than NT$4.5 billion off the coast of Kaohsiung. The Coast Guard sent a ship to successfully intercept the vessel, and successfully arrested the captain, Chen Yongheng, and five others. The Kaohsiung District Prosecutor's Office investigated and prosecuted the yacht for drug and other crimes.

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Monitoring blocked, Bureau of Investigation continues to collect evidence

The investigation pointed out that at the end of last year, it received information from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and learned that a batch of drugs manufactured in Cambodia would flow into Taiwan. After receiving the report, the Southern Airport Station of the Bureau of Investigation reported to the command of the Xiong Procuratorate and launched surveillance on suspicious objects. However, the surveillance process did not go smoothly. The judge once refused to issue a surveillance ticket. The investigators continued to collect evidence and learned that the yacht captain Chen Yongheng and the crew member surnamed Wang, and three associates surnamed Zheng used "fishing at five o'clock tomorrow" as a code word to prepare to go out to sea to pick up the batch of drugs.

In the early morning of January 26 this year, three accomplices surnamed Zheng hid in the secret cabin of the yacht. Chen and Wang made customs declarations and went fishing. At around 8 a.m. that morning, when they met the drug-trafficking mother ship off the coast of Kaohsiung, both parties were worried that their phone calls would be monitored by technology. After confirming each other's identities at sea by raising flags, the drug-carrying mother ship put the drugs on a life raft and handed them to captain Chen Yongheng to pick them up.

1,500 kilograms of ketamine found

Captain and five others sued

Chen Nan directed Wang, Zheng and four other people to move the drugs into the secret cabin of the yacht, and then pierced the life raft with a sharp knife and sank into the sea to destroy the evidence. The three men and Zheng men then hid in the secret cabin and returned to Taiwan with the yacht. However, the drug transport operation had long been grasped by the Coast Guard, and the Coast Guard vessel Seeing that the drug connection had been completed, they immediately stopped the "Emperor's Poetry". After being escorted back to Hong Kong for inspection, a total of 1,500 packages of ketamine weighing 1,500 kilograms and a market value of more than NT$4.5 billion were found. It was also the largest drug case in the Bureau's anti-narcotics history.

Zhuo Kui praised and thanked him for not giving up despite setbacks.

Executive President Zhuo Yongtai yesterday led Minister of Justice Cheng Mingqian, IOC Director Bi Ling, American Institute in Taiwan Director Gu Liyan and others to commend the meritorious personnel and thanked the task force for its spirit of not giving up despite setbacks. Otherwise, this batch of drugs, which can be used by 10 million people, would flow into Taiwan and cause inestimable damage.