Philippine police today arrested six people and seized methamphetamine worth about USD 46 million at a former US naval base north of the capital Manila, a police spokesman said.
The six were caught while loading travel bags and boxes at the port of Subic containing about 200 kilogrammes of the stimulant methamphetamine hydrochloride, said Chief Inspector Roque Merdegia.
Subic is a former US naval base that was converted into a freeport shortly after the Americans pulled out in 1992.
Merdegia put the street value of the seized drugs is about USD 46 million.
The raid was the result of five months of undercover operations, Merdegia said, although no other details were made available.
Western governments have tagged the Philippines a major transshipment point of illegal drugs in the region.
The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) has in the past acknowledged that drug lords have been known to finance the election campaigns of local officials in remote provinces.
