A woman accused of importing more than 250kg of drugs had discovered "almost the perfect scam", a court has heard. Crown prosecutor Scott McColgan told the jury the case was about large quantities of pseudoephedrine, a precursor ingredient to manufacture methamphetamine. The class-B drug can be extracted from a medicine widely available in China called ContacNT, the court heard. Gan, a mother of three, ran a business importing food from China to the Pacific Islands when she "cottoned on to an almost perfect way" of importing drugs into New Zealand. While the defendant never physically touched the drugs, McColgan said she exercised control over their movement and that was all that was needed to prove the charge.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 29, 2016 01:18 UTC