IN broken English, Tan Hui attempted to wiggle his way out of an arrest. The captain of MV Min Lian Yu Yun 61870, sailing under the Taiwanese flag, asked the joint team from the National Police's narcotics division and the customs directorate-general not to search his vessel. Two weeks ago, on a Tuesday, the joint team intercepted his fishing boat in the waters of Anambas, Riau Islands.

The Taiwanese signaled that he would give the officers a box c