Beijing Police Smash Large Drug Trafficking RingA spokesman for the Beijing police announced Monday that they have cracked a large drug trafficking ring dealing in a new kind of drug known as ketamine.The police seized about two kg of ketamine, a narcotic prohibited by the United Nations Drug Control Program, along with one kg of "ice" and one kg of hashish. According to the announcement, police caught a trafficking suspect named Wang Dayong and his girlfriend at a hotel on July 12 and found cash in yuan, US dollars and Hong Kong dollars. Wang has confessed to his crimes. Another suspect, Feng Fanchen, was arrested on a train running from Shenzhen to Beijing. Police found four kg of drugs of different kinds in his luggage. Feng admitted that the provider was Wang Dayong. This year, Chinese police has been making special efforts to smash rings dealing in prostitution, drug trafficking and gambling. Beijing will host the Fifth International Heroin Conference of Interpol, scheduled to open tomorrow. The annual conference will discuss the drug problem worldwide and international cooperation in drug prohibition. Statistics show that about 140 million people in the world use hashish, 13 million use cocaine and 8.6 million use heroin. In China, the population of drug users on the records of the Ministry of Public Security has reached 681,000, accounting for 0.54 percent of China's total population. |
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