A person who smuggled and distributed drugs by hiding them in cardboard boxes was sent to the Public Prosecution Service.

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Yang Soo-yeon = A group of people who smuggled and distributed drugs such as ketamine by hiding them between cardboard boxes in delivery boxes was handed over to the Public Prosecution Office.

Seoul Seocho Police Station announced on the 26th that it had sequentially forwarded five people, including Mr. A, a man in his 30s, to the prosecution (currently the Public Prosecution Office) until last month on charges of violating the Narcotic Drugs Control Act and the Aggravated Punishment Act for Specific Crimes.

Of these, four were detained and one was sent without detention.

They are suspected of smuggling 1.56 kg of ketamine into the country through delivery boxes and distributing about 2 kg of narcotics from last May until recently.

It was found that they used a method of spreading ketamine etc. thinly between the cardboard of a delivery box and vacuum packaging it.

The box was disguised as a regular parcel containing kitchen utensils, etc., and Incheon International Airport customs reportedly failed to detect the drugs hidden this way.

It was discovered that the group smuggled drugs into the country under instructions from an overseas drug organization.

In addition, they distributed the smuggled drugs by breaking them into small pieces and burying them in the ground, such as in a park in Songpa-gu, Seoul, before collecting them.

Police believe that delivery workers were also used to collect and transport drugs.

Police are continuing to investigate additional people involved in the distribution network.