Clearly, the native expatriate bankers didn't arrive first, in any other case, the invention would have been vacuumed up in seconds!
Officers from the Police's Explosive Ordnance Disposal Bureau have been known as to Chung Hom Kok seaside in Stanley on Thursday afternoon after a person claimed he discovered 19 packets containing white powder which revealed HK$19 million price of cocaine.
The report was recorded round 4 pm yesterday, as the person first discovered 11 packages – all in blue plastic packaging with a label that learn “TNT”, which have been suspected to have been washed ashore by the tide.
Every bundle was about 12-by-22-centimeters in measurement and the person opened one of many packages solely to discover a important quantity of white powder. He later reported it to the police.
The police quickly arrived to cordon off the realm and evacuated close by swimmers, whereas officers from the Bureau of Explosive Ordnance Disposal have been known as to the scene.
After a radical examination, the police confirmed that the white powder was cocaine with the firefighters discovering 5 bricks of cocaine within the water.
Through the operation, police seized a complete of 19 bricks of cocaine, weighing about 19 kg in whole and value about HK$19 million.
The case is now being dealt with by the police Narcotics Bureau.
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