The Guangzhou Intermediate People’s Court in Guangdong Province in south China has sentenced a drug kingpin, Chen Bingxi, 50, to death. Four of his associates have been also received suspended death sentences or life term.
Chen Bingxi has been made guilty of trafficking and manufacturing 12.36 tonnes of methamphetamine, selling 108.85 kilograms of heroin and transporting over 100 kilograms of heroin in the region.
However, Chen’s wife, Chen Baoyu, was sentenced to one year in jail. She was found guilty for producing drugs and illegally crossing a border.
Two other members of Chen’s drug racket were sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve. The two others were sentenced to life in prison.
According to the court judgment, Chen had been dealing in drugs since long. He had a close contact with other drug mafias in the country.
Chen had set up a warehouse to store more than 100 kilograms of heroin in 1998.
In November 1999, police had seized 11.08 tonnes of methamphetamine, Chen had hidden in a storehouse in Guangzhou and another 1.28 tonnes in Puning.
Later, Chen and his wife had fled to Thailand in November 1999 but Chinese police arrested them in 2003.
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