A Canadian Chinese drug lord who had been hunted by police of
several nations is going on trial in south China's Guangdong
Province charged with manufacturing and selling drugs.
Deng Rihua, 49, who had run a drug ring under an alias Chen
Weihua, appeared at the Intermediate People's Court of Guangzhou
City at the first-instance hearing on Thursday and Friday, together
with nine accomplices.
The court heard that Deng and his accomplices bought 3,150 kg of
drug-producing raw material from northwestern Qinghai Province and
stored it into a warehouse in Guangzhou in May last year.
In July and August last year, Deng and his accomplices
manufactured about 100 kg of methamphetamine, commonly known as
ice, in an orchard of Gaoyao City of Guangdong. In November, they
manufactured another 4.5 kg of ice in an abandoned quarry in
Guangzhou.
The ice drugs were sold by the ring at a price of 130,000 yuan
(US$17,300) per kg at the end of last year.
The ring also allegedly manufactured a number of Yaba tablets --
a combination of methamphetamine and caffeine which means crazy
medicine in Thai -- in an old house in Foshan City of Guangdong in
October last year, the court heard.
Deng and his accomplices were captured by police in an orchard
of Guangzhou on Dec. 28 last year, when they were manufacturing
drugs. Police also seized three kg of ice and 400 kg half-finished
products of ice.
Deng, a native of Qujiang County of Guangdong's Shaoguan City
and now of Canadian nationality, had been manufacturing and selling
drugs for more than ten years in several nations.
He had been listed as wanted by China, the United States,
Canada, Australia, the Philippines and India.
The trial on Deng's case is continuing.
(Xinhua News Agency November 11, 2007)