U.S. intelligence-sponsored investigation uncovers largest 4.5 billion ketamine smuggling case in history

Taiwan and the U.S. jointly achieve great results in anti-drug operations! The Southern Airport 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 monitoring operations, it was discovered that the yacht "Emperor's Poetry" was picking up 1,500 kilograms of ketamine with a market value of more than 4.5 billion yuan off the coast of Kaohsiung. The Coast Guard sent a ship to successfully intercept, and successfully arrested a total of 5 people named Captain Chen. After the investigation, the prosecutor charged him with drug and other crimes.

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 produced in Cambodia would flow into Taiwan. After receiving the report, the Southern Mobile Workstation of the Bureau of Investigation reported the command to the prosecutor and launched surveillance operations against suspicious objects. However, the surveillance process did not go smoothly. , was once refused by the judge to issue a surveillance ticket, but the investigators did not give up and continued to search for evidence. They learned that the captain of the yacht "Emperor's Poetry" surnamed Chen and the crew member surnamed Wang, Xiang Zheng and other three accomplices used "fishing at 5 o'clock tomorrow" as a secret code to prepare to go to sea to pick up this batch of drugs.

In the early morning of January 26 this year, three accomplices, including Zheng, hid in a secret cabin of a yacht, and Chen and Wang made customs declarations to go fishing. At around 8 a.m. that day, when they met with the drug-trafficking mother ship off the coast of Kaohsiung, both parties were worried that their phone calls would be monitored by technology, so they used the traditional flagging method to confirm their identity at sea. After the drug-carrying mother ship put the drugs on a life raft, they handed it over to Captain Chen to pick up the drugs.

Captain Chen commanded Wang, Zheng and other four people to move the drugs into the secret cabin, and then used a sharp knife to pierce the life raft and sink it into the sea to destroy the evidence. The three men, Zheng and others, 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. The Coast Guard Seeing that the drug connection had been completed, the boat immediately stopped the "Emperor's Poetry" and brought it back to Hong Kong for inspection. A total of 1,500 packages of ketamine weighing 1,500 kilograms and with a market value of more than 4.5 billion were found. It was also the largest drug case in the Bureau's anti-narcotics history.

Executive President Zhuo Rongtai went south today to commend the meritorious personnel and thanked the task force for not giving up the spirit of handling the case to the end despite setbacks. Otherwise, this batch of drugs, which can be used by 10 million people, would flow into Taiwan and cause inestimable damage.