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China busts 52,500 drug trafficking cases in 15 months
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Xinhua News Agency
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July 14, 2006
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China busts 52,500 drug trafficking cases in 15 months
BEIJING, July 14 (Xinhua) -- Police organs all over China cracked
52,500 drug trafficking cases from January 2005 to April 2006,
according to sources from the Ministry of Public Security.
The ministry on Friday held a national meeting on furthering the
war against drugs.
Sources from the meeting said from January 2005 to April 2006, the
police organs busted 1,279 drug trafficking gangs, arrested 66,800
suspects, seized 7.2 tons of heroin, 2.994 tons of opium, 6.3 tons of
methamphetamine hydrochloride, 2.74 tons of ketamine and 2.48 million
Ecstasy pills.
"These results have terrified drug trafficking gangs both home and
abroad," ...