10 drug dealers have been executed in China

Beijing. June 27. Silkroadnews - Ten drug dealers were executed in Guangdong province after the court of appeal upheld the earlier sentence. The executions were approved by the Supreme People’s Court, China Daily reports.
Fan Shuixian and nine others were put to death shortly after the Shanwei Intermediate People’s Court in Lufeng delivered its decision. The court confirmed the verdict handed down by the lower court on charges of producing, storing, trafficking and selling a large quantity of narcotic substances.
The sentencing hearing was public.
Fan was also found guilty of illegally possessing weapons and illegally obtaining about 50 kilograms of drug components from 75 metric tons of ephedrine during the period from September to October 2012.
“Fan earned 1.1 million yuan ($172,000) from selling the ephedrine he extracted, and later mixed 16.4 kilograms of methamphetamine, commonly known as ice, with his ephedrine,” the report reads quoting the court’s decision.
When raiding Fan’s gang the police seized 16.4 kg of methamphetamine and 33.2 kg of semi-finished product for its production, 5 guns and 126 sets of ammunition in late October 2012.
Other executed were Cai Jinxiong, Chen Jinjun, Fan Zhongchao, Hong Liu, Huang Wenze, Cai Chugang, Wu Shenggeng, Li Zhenyu and Zhuang Chengfa. All were found guilty of the illegal production, sale and illegal trafficking of a large number of narcotic substances.
According to the deputy director of the Department of Public Security of Guangdong Province Lin Weixiong, in January-May, the police seized more than 5.4 tons of narcotic drugs - 5.1 tons more than in the same period last year.
Also, the police detained 5,504 suspects, including suspected foreign drug traffickers.
In nine operations from December 24 to June 5, police in Foshan, Shenzhen, Dongguan, Jieyang and Shanwei raided a large cross-border drug network, detaining 39 suspects - including 16 Vietnamese and a Taiwan resident - and seized 4.79 kg of methamphetamine.
Lin noted, the Guangdong police will continue the policy of zero tolerance for illicit drugs and related crimes, and promised to hold additional campaigns in the coming months.