News / Hong Kong Customs team uncover $63m cocaine smuggling bid

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Hong Kong Customs has uncovered a bid to smuggle $63m of liquid cocaine into the territory in a container of wine.

Senior superintendent Wong Ho-yin and superintendent Lui Chi-tak said that, acting on intelligence, customs officials singled out a 20ft container that had arrived from Brazil on 19 December.

A total of 444 kg of suspected liquid cocaine, worth $63m, had been packed in 148 transparent plastic bags. The container was said to be filled with ...