Chinese police in southwest China's Yunnan Province have taken into custody a suspected drug smuggler from Myanmar believed to have trafficked narcotics in China for years.

Shang Chaomei, 37, is a native of Tengchong County in Yunnan Province. He later obtained Myanmar citizenship, police said.

Police reports show Shang smuggled 500 kg of heroin to China in the period between 1998 and April 2001.

As Shang is now a Myanmar citizen, he will be extradited to Myanmar and be punished in accordance with that country's laws.

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