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Drug ring head executed
Drugs trafficker Wu Xiaohui was executed on Friday morning after a gruesome tale of smuggling and death. The 24-year-old ringleader, from Yunnan Province, was held responsible for the deaths of two drugs mules who died when they failed to pass heroin out of their bodies naturally, and were poisoned, said the Shanghai Railway Intermediate People's Court. She was also convicted of trafficking almost 2 kilograms. In September 2003, luggage handlers at Shanghai Railway Station found female body parts in a red suitcase left there and called the police, who then appealed to local people for information. A taxi driver contacted the Railway Department of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau, having found a purse with female underwear, a phone sim card and a comb. A DNA test matched hairs in the comb with the body parts, and analysis of the call records on the sim card narrowed the owner down to Dehong and Kunming. Airports identified four people as leaving Dehong, transferring at Kunming and arriving in Shanghai that day. Police found the four in a hotel in Yangpu District, and body tissues matching the body parts were found in their room. Police listened in on calls made to numbers on the sim card and discovered plans to transport some drugs to Shanghai. Shao Zengyuan was arrested on September 11. On questioning, Shao told police Wu Xiaohui was the ringleader of a group of eight mules who took heroin from Yunnan to Shanghai. Two of them, Gan Fuji and Liao Longying, failed to pass the drug through their bodies and died. One of the other mules, Liu Yujun, then cut up Gan's body in a desperate attempt to recover the drugs. The court sentenced Wu to death in September. Two of her accomplices were jailed for life. Shanghai High People's Court confirmed the sentences on appeal. In Guangdong, provincial customs officers have dealt with 396 smuggling cases, seizing 9,746.77 kilograms of various drugs between 1999 and 2005. A total of 386 people were arrested. Guangdong customs officer Wu Sihai believes the crackdown has finished off many drug gangs once active in Guangdong Province, Hong Kong and Macao.
(China Daily 06/25/2005 page2)
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