from OKORO CHINEDU in Lagos, Nigeria
Nigeria Bureau
LAGOS, (CAJ News) – NIGERIAN authorities have dismantled an alleged drug syndicate operated by a Chinese man.
The suspect has been named as 58-year-old Tianzhen Yen (alias Jackie), who has been arrested at a hotel in the Ikeja area of Lagos.
Firstly, based on intelligence, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) officers recently intercepted a 40-year-old suspect, Yakubu Emmanuel Mark, in a commercial bus going to Ghana at the Gbaji checkpoint along Badagry-Seme expressway.
When he was searched, a total of 750grams of cocaine were found in his bag.
A follow up operation was organized to trace and arrest the kingpin behind the trans-border drug trafficking syndicate, who allegedly turned out to be a Yen.
He was eventually traced to the hotel.
When his hotel room was searched, 4,3 grams of cocaine; a gram of methamphetamine; two electronic weighing scales and Chinese National Identification Number Card, among other exhibits were reportedly recovered while he was arrested in the vicinity of the hotel.
– CAJ News