P30-M worth of illegal drugs seized from 3 Chinese nationals in Cavite

CAMP VICENTE LIM, Laguna – Police seized six kilograms of shabu (methamphetamine hydrochloride) estimated to be worth P30 million from three Chinese nationals during a raid on an apartment in Bacoor City, Cavite, early Wednesday, police said.

Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, Quezon) regional police director Chief Superintendent Benito Estipona identified the Chinese nationals in a text message to the Philippine Daily Inquirer as Guo Kangfu, 37, and his companions Wang Fangyuan, 43, with address listed as Pulilan, Bulacan, and Cal Zhifu, 40, from Rosario, Cavite.

Armed with a search warrant issued by Judge Fernando Sagun Jr. of the Regional Trial Court Branch 78 in Quezon City, members of the police Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Force and the Cavite police raided Kangfu’s apartment in Meadowood Executive Village in Panapaan village 8 around 2 a.m.

The police recovered six plastic bags, each containing a kilo of shabu, and drug paraphernalia.

Bacoor City police chief Superintendent Ronaldo Mendoza said the haul was worth P30 million, based on a street value at P5 million per kilo.

He said the authorities were investigating possible links between the suspects and three Chinese drug convicts sprung from jail in Trece Martires City, Cavite, last February, as well as with the two other Chinese nationals held in an earlier raid in Pasay City from whom the authorities recovered P5 million worth of shabu.

The suspects and the evidence recovered were turned over to the Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Force in Camp Crame in Quezon City.