Pinay tourist charged with trafficking cocaine worth $4 million

Tsuen Wan Magistracy

A Filipina tourist appeared in Tsuen Wan court earlier today, Sept. 6, charged with one count of drug trafficking.

The unidentified 30-year-old woman was arrested at the Hong Kong International Airport on Sunday, Sept. 4, after being found with about 3.33 kilograms of suspected cocaine valued at $3.9 million.

A press statement from Hong Kong Customs said the woman had arrived from Manila. During customs clearance 37 packets of hair products reportedly found inside her check-in baggage were subsequently found to contain cocaine.

The suspect had claimed to be a hairstylist.

She was the second Filipina to be arrested for trafficking drugs from Manila to Hong Kong since Philippine President Rodrigo R. Duterte took power on July 1.

President Duterte scored a landslide win in the May national elections on an anti-drugs and anti-corruption platform.

700 gms of cocaine inside bag

The first, Anne Ryan Cruz, was arrested on July 30 at Chek Lap Kok after being found with 700 suspected grams of suspected cocaine in her luggage.

The drug was estimated to have a market value of $750,000.

Under Hong Kong’s laws, trafficking in a dangerous drug is a serious offence, for whcih the maximum penalty is life imprisonment and a fine of $5 million.

President Duterte scored a landslide win in the May national elections on an anti-drugs and anti-corruption platform. – The SUN