Exclusive | Watch: inside the meth lab Chinese criminals set up before being gunned down by Philippine police
Exclusive: Philippine officials said the lab would have been able to make 400kg of shabu every 10 days, or more than one tonne a month
It may seem a great spot to set up a business – on a busy road and opposite an airport. But maybe not when you are dealing shabu.
The Chinese methamphetamine makers who picked the place did not live long enough to regret it.
The sign on the now abandoned premises – in Cauayan, Isabela province in the far north of the Philippines – advertised plastic products and appliances.
Decaying goods and old televisions littered the area outside the warehouses, which once provided cover for the methamphetamine lab inside.
A local police SWAT unit accompanied the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency team showing me perhaps the only raided meth lab in the country that has not been cleared of all the equipment. I was told it was because the case was still being investigated.
