Hong Kong police have raided a crack cocaine laboratory sited in an upmarket apartment and seized narcotics ingredients and drugs worth some $7.6 million, a statement said Sunday.

The ingredients were thought to have been imported from Peru and could have been used to produce 40 kilogrammes of cocaine.

This, plus another 10 kilogrammes of suspected crack cocaine found in the apartment, would together have been worth about HK$59 million ($7.56 million), police said in a statement.

It was believed to be the first time a luxury apartment had been used as a base for manufacturing drugs, police said.

The four-bedroom flat in Hong Kong’s New Territories measured 1,000 square feet — large by the city’s cramped standards.

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