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Suspended Tonga cop jailed for drugs import

08:48 am on 24 January 2014

Tonga's supreme court has jailed a suspended policeman for importing a controlled substance used to produce drugs.

Matangi Tonga says Valeliano Manu was given a five-year sentence along with two foreigners, Chinchiu Liu and ShiQing Lin.

They were found to have for imported more than two kilos of pseudoephedrine.

A fourth man, Xiu Ming Lin, was jailed for 10 months for possession of the substance.