Seven drug traffickers were sentenced to death and another to
death with reprieve by Wuxi Municipal Intermediate People's Court
in east China's Jiangsu
Province on Friday.
This is the largest drug trafficking case cracked in the
province, according to police.
The eight-member ring trafficked about 20 kilograms of drugs in
three cities, Chongqing, Shanghai and Wuxi, and controlled about 60
percent of the drugs circulating in Wuxi.
Forty-year-old Lian Yongming, head of the ring, started
trafficking drugs in 1995, and had been imprisoned for about two
years. Most of the ring members have criminal records.
Police cracked the ring after one year and eight months of
investigation.
(Xinhua News Agency July 9, 2005)