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17-08-2015, 05:00 PM
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The Big Read: NZ's biggest drug smuggler
By Jared Savage (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/jared-savage/news/headlines.cfm?a_id=304) @jaredsavageNZH
5:14 PM Monday Aug 17, 2015
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Hui Zhang. Photo / Brett Phibbs
An Auckland man has been convicted of smuggling more pseudoephedrine into New Zealand than anybody else.
Hui Zhang disguised nearly 400kg of the drugs needed to make methamphetamine as "bread crumbs" from China destined for an Auckland restaurant, which he used as a hub to distribute through his network across the city.
At the beginning of the trial in June, the 44-year-old admitted admitted 34 pseudoephedrine supply charges as "simply a link in the chain" but denied the three more serious charges of importation.
But after deliberating for two weeks, the jury found him guilty of smuggling two shipments of Class-B drugs - totalling 392kg - although acquitted him of a third importation of 91kg hidden inside a water cylinder despite his fingerprints being found inside the sealed container.
Zhang now faces a prison sentence likely to be longer than the 13 years and eight months recently given to Van Thanh Tran, who pleaded guilty to smuggling a 250kg shipment after being targeted in Operation Ghost.
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?213038-NZ-s-biggest-drug-smuggler-GUESS-WHICH-RACE&goto=newpost).
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The Big Read: NZ's biggest drug smuggler
By Jared Savage (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/jared-savage/news/headlines.cfm?a_id=304) @jaredsavageNZH
5:14 PM Monday Aug 17, 2015
http://media.nzherald.co.nz/webcontent/image/jpg/201534/SCCZEN_A_160615NZHBPCOURT_220x147.jpg
Hui Zhang. Photo / Brett Phibbs
An Auckland man has been convicted of smuggling more pseudoephedrine into New Zealand than anybody else.
Hui Zhang disguised nearly 400kg of the drugs needed to make methamphetamine as "bread crumbs" from China destined for an Auckland restaurant, which he used as a hub to distribute through his network across the city.
At the beginning of the trial in June, the 44-year-old admitted admitted 34 pseudoephedrine supply charges as "simply a link in the chain" but denied the three more serious charges of importation.
But after deliberating for two weeks, the jury found him guilty of smuggling two shipments of Class-B drugs - totalling 392kg - although acquitted him of a third importation of 91kg hidden inside a water cylinder despite his fingerprints being found inside the sealed container.
Zhang now faces a prison sentence likely to be longer than the 13 years and eight months recently given to Van Thanh Tran, who pleaded guilty to smuggling a 250kg shipment after being targeted in Operation Ghost.
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?213038-NZ-s-biggest-drug-smuggler-GUESS-WHICH-RACE&goto=newpost).