Lin lifeng posed with some peace for the photographer of the Airport Security Police who made him hold the poster of rigor with his name and the number of the new cause against him. Perhaps it was the custom: it was the third time he was arrested this year.
Supermarketer in the papers, Lifeng actually does something else, if the accusations against you are true. It is, for certain sectors of the Chinese community, a man of entertainment. He used to run a karaoke that he performed Clandestine parties during the pandemic on 1600 Olazábal Street, Chinatown territory, where Asian boys and girls met to dance without masks between small Ketamine bags or crystal meth pipes in the pockets, closed twice this year by the City Police.
Lin would leave the cell and return to do everything again. He used to run another karaoke on Lavalle street, which the Federal government raided years ago to find another Asian party with chemical pipes, cocaine and prostitutes of various nationalities. They also linked it to another hot spot in the area, a cave on Julián Álvarez street where it worked an underground casino of poker and mahjong tables behind a red door, a high-grossing business.
This time, Lifeng was detained in a small apart hotel on Moreno Street with 97 ecstasy pills, three glass pipes, a scale, a spatula. The casino was raided by the PSA: They found $ 232,000 and more than two million pesos, plus a silver counting machine. The local Lavalle too, with some bags of cocaine. Two other men from his community were arrested as part of the case, also high-end cars, crystal meth and cash were seized from them. But a man of Argentine nationality also fell, found in a Chinese supermarket on Corrientes Street. There were 16 raids: more than 23 million pesos were found.
But the play that led to the new arrest was not the clandestine night, but something darker: international drug smuggling, 1,162 grams of cocaine shipped to Australia that according to researchers could become 250 thousand dollars in Oceania, more than 46 million pesos.
The underworld of the Chinese community tends to receive drugs rather than send them. its private mail smuggling route it serves to fuel their use of crystal methamphetamine, the only known outlet for one of the most widely used drugs on the planet in the Southern Cone. Send sneaky cocaine through the mail used to be a business owned by members of the Nigerian community, with powder of more than 85 percent purity sent from points such as Avellaneda or San Telmo to Thailand or China itself. This time, with a case in charge of the judge Pablo Yadarola, in which PROCUNAR participated, the so-called Chinese king of the night -according to the accusation against him- made his maximum profit move. But there was a mistake along the way. Something happened.
The investigation began on July 19 at the Ezeiza cargo terminal, a submersible drug pump. That was the first alert that led to the suspects. Then, there were two more shipping attempts, which were controlled by the Justice. First, a radiator shipped to a Chinese man in the city of Reservoir inside a box of whiskey by private mail. The sender was a real person, a 28-year-old Argentine, dedicated on paper to the finance business, a former employee of a parking lot. Another shipment was intercepted, powder sent to Melbourne, same sender.
Thus, a controlled delivery was made, which led to the arrest of the accused. José Glinsky, head of the PFA, explains: “The value of the kilo of this substance in Argentina it averages $ 7,000, in Spain it is around 40,000 and in Australia it can go up to $ 250,000, that is to say, it can quadruple and even six times that amount ”.
For Justice and for the PSA, Lifeng would have been in charge of delivering the boxes to the person in charge of shipping them to Australia: he was seen by the authorities in the undercover follow-up to private mail.
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