Two students from Auckland's North Shore are defending charges of importing ingredients used in making the drug methamphetamine, or P.
Oscar Yu-Cheng Lin, 20, and Bowen Xu, 20, are on trial in Auckland District Court for allegedly being part of a business importing enough pseudoephedrine to manufacture $7 million worth of P.
Lin, a student at Rangitoto College at the time of the alleged offending, has denied two charges of importing pseudoephedrine, a class C controlled drug.
Xu, who attended Westlake Boys High when the alleged offending happened, denies four of the same charges.
The Crown says Lin and Xu were part of a business importing the cold and flu medicine Contac NT, legal in China but illegal in New Zealand, the Herald on Sunday reported.
It said they allegedly imported the medicine in a range of objects like table legs, a metal bollard, tea-bag packaging and a Buddha statue.
The medicine contains pseudoephedrine, which can be used to manufacture P.
