Singapore’s most notorious estate gets another incident to add to its regularly updated archives — a Yishun resident was apparently involved in a syndicate that attempted to smuggle over $64.6 million worth of cocaine into Australia.
Barry Zheng — listed as the director of a local firm that deals in computer hardware and accessories — is allegedly part of a drug smuggling syndicate that was busted last month, reports The Age. After authorities raided a whaling vessel about 1,300km off the coast of Tasmania, enforcement teams found 180kg of cocaine on the Kaiyo Maru No. 8. The ship loitered off the coast as a floating base to offload drugs onto smaller boats, which would transport them to shore.
But the rough waters between mainland Australia and Tasmania resulted in repeated failures to do so. Police raided the Kaiyo Maru No. 8 after the smugglers’ unsuccessful attempts.
Zheng, as well as nine Chinese nationals, has since been charged with one count of attempting to import a commercial quantity of a border-controlled drug.
Who knows, maybe Zheng was simply desperate enough to raise the money he needed to get out of the Murderer and Siao Lang town.
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