Hong Kong police arrest couple after seizing HK$60 million worth of cannabis

Hong Kong police have arrested a couple after officers seized HK$60 million (US$7.7 million) worth of cannabis buds in the New Territories.

The force said on Tuesday that its investigation had led officers to intercept a car driven by a 44-year-old man on Yuen Long’s Tai Tong Shan Road a day earlier.

Chief Inspector Tai Yuk-lun of the New Territories North’s anti-triad squad said officers seized 10kg (22lbs) of cannabis buds from the vehicle and arrested the driver on suspicion of trafficking in a dangerous drug.

Police discovered another 260kg of cannabis buds in a follow-up raid on the man’s flat in Muk Kiu Tau Tsuen off Kung Um Road, he added. The locations of the intercepted car and the flat were about 2km (1.2 miles) apart.

Officers arrested the man’s wife, 43, who was on the premises at the time of the raid.

The force said the 270kg haul had an estimated street value of HK$60 million.