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The Wong Ecstasy Group
As discussed previously, Lee and Ho were in the process of hiring chem-
ists through their friend Gei in China in the summer of 2000 in a bid to
bring them over to Canada to set up an ecstasy production plant.
However, their plan was aborted due to their arrests in September 2000.
Nevertheless, many of their associates entered the ecstasy trade during the
same period, which became evident a few years after their arrests as the
ATS markets fourished, according to police intelligence.
Bouchard (2007) makes this clear when he states: ‘Te condition for
resilience requires that the system and the market continue to function
and persist.’ In the event that a market is able to continue to supply the
same drug through adaptation, it can do so in a number of ways as shown
in the preceding chapters. However, a decreasing pool of labour and
increasing targeted risks which should have prompted either successful or
failed adaption (to supply the same drug) can in fact lead to an additional
phenomenon unconsidered within the confnes of the market resilience
framework: network resilience via a market displacement efect (to sup-
ply a diferent drug).
Te case study of Ze Wai, the half-brother of Kwok Keung, Kwok
Yung, and Kwok Hung, serves as an example of the successful adaptation