AMSTERDAM, 25 January, 2021 (TON): Tse Chi Lop, world’s most wanted runaway arrested at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, police announced on Saturday.

Tse Chi Lop is the alleged leader of a vast Asian drug consortium responsible for up to 70% of all narcotics entering Australia, the law enforcement say.

Investigation accused the Tse’s syndicate of controlling the $70 billion, i.e. a year Asia Pacific drug trade.

He is believed to transport tons of methamphetamine, heroin and ketamine to at least a dozen countries from Japan to New Zealand. But methamphetamine is its main business, police say.

During a stop-over on a flight from Taiwan to Canada, he was arrested on the request of the Australian Federal Police (AFP). The cartel is suspected of often concealing its drugs in packets of tea.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) conservatively estimates the syndicate's methamphetamine revenue in 2018 at $8 billion a year, but says it could be as high as $17.7 billion.

"The word kingpin often gets thrown around, but there is no doubt it applies here,” said Jeremy Douglas, Southeast Asia and Pacific representative for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in 2019.

The reports stated that suspected members of Tse's crime organization may have high level links to governments across Asia, having invested in large infrastructure ventures under the Chinese Communist Party's Belt and Road Scheme.

Tse has been the prime target of Operation Kungur, an anti-narcotics operation led by AFP, howver, involving about 20 agencies from Asia, North America and Europe, all places that have served as markets or supply hubs for Tse's organization. It is by far the biggest ever international effort to combat Asian drug trafficking syndicates, say law enforcement agents involved in the investigation.