Drug Trafficking
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Japanese,
Korean drug dealers sentenced in China
(Xinhua)Updated: 2014-12-26 17:46
NANJING - Six people nabbed in a
cross-border drug trafficking case in China, including one Japanese and two
Koreans, have been given punishments ranging from life imprisonment to the
death sentence.
Three of the six, including one from the
Chinese mainland, one from Hong Kong and one from Japan, were sentenced to
death on Dec 16 for trafficking up to 120 kg of crystal methamphetamine, the
intermediate people's court of Nantong City in the eastern province of Jiangsu
said on Friday.
The court found that the Hong Kong man
escorted the Japanese buyer and three others - two from the Republic of Korea
and one from Taiwan, who are still on the run - to buy crystal methamphetamine
from two sellers in south China's Guangdong Province between February 2012 and
March 2013.
Some of the drugs were transported to
Nantong and also Rizhao in Shandong Province, and another two Koreans were
responsible for smuggling the drugs to Japan by cargo ship, it said.
The other drug seller in Guangdong was
sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve. The two Koreans were sentenced to
death with a two-year reprieve and life in prison, respectively.
The court also ordered the confiscation
of the personal property of all six drug dealers.
Three of the six have appealed their
verdicts.
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