A 42-year-old male Chinese national was apprehended by PNG authorities at the Lae airport, on Wednesday, 22nd of March 2023, while trying to board a plane out of Lae, Morobe province. He’s alleged to be among the suspects involved in the transportation of narcotics including drug substances between Australia and Papua New Guinea. He’s currently detained and is being questioned by police. Lae City [Photo by Manu Bobola] At the same time, five men were apprehended in Queensland, Australia, after the plane landed from P-N-G loaded with 52 kilograms of methamphetamine. This follows the investigations into a small undetected aircraft or Black Flight which left Bulolo at around 8am on Tuesday, allegedly loaded with narcotics. The suspicious flight prompted the investigators of Operation Gepard, a covert operation by the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary and Australian Federal Police, running since November last year, to track down the black flight and place surveillance on certain suspec