- Safiu Kehinde
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has bursted drug syndicates led by a Chinese man, 58-year-old Tianzhen Yen (alias Jackie).
This was disclosed in a statement issued on Sunday by the agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi.
Yen was reportedly arrested at his hotel in Ikeja area of Lagos following a tip off from one of the drug syndicates earlier arrest
Officers of the Seme Special Area Command of the Agency had on Thursday 21st November intercepted a 40-year-old suspect, Yakubu Emmanuel Mark in a commercial bus going to Ghana at the Gbaji checkpoint along Badagry-Seme expressway based on credible intelligence.
When he was searched, a total of 750grams of cocaine were found in his bag. A swift follow up operation was organized to trace and arrest the kingpin behind the trans-border drug trafficking syndicate, who turned out to be a Chinese citizen, Tianzhen Yen.
He was eventually traced to MC Hotel behind Alade market, Allen Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos. When his hotel room was searched, 4.3grams of cocaine; a gram of methamphetamine; two electronic weighing scales; and Chinese National Identification Number Card, among other exhibits were recovered while he was arrested in the vicinity of the hotel.