A freight company employee on Thursday wore a Spiderman mask while claiming his 450,000 yuan ($68,400) cash reward in Guangzhou city for giving a lead to the police about a major international drug trafficking ring. The amount received is the biggest of its kind in Guangdong province.

The informant, who was working as the freight company's examiner in Shunde district, Foshan city, discovered a number of watch boxes, which contained drugs, headed for Malaysia. He immediately reported the incident to the local police.

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The evidence helped law enforcement officers from the cities of Foshan, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Donggua to seize 630 kilograms of drugs and 600 kilograms of raw drug-making materials. They also nabbed 20 suspects, including seven individuals from Hong Kong and discovered three manufacturing and store house station between Dec. 29 2015 and Jan. 14, 2016.

The prize came from the Guangdong Provincial Public Security Bureau (300,000) and Public Security Bureaus of Shunde District, Foshan City (150,000). The awarded money was based on a law announced by Guangdong Province's Department of Finance and the Provincial Public Security which states that monetary incentives will be offered to those who can tip off crimes related to illegal drugs, according to Provincial Public Security Bureau's drug enforcement director, Deng Jianwei.

A total of 24.81 million yuan has been awarded to more than 3,500 informants across the Guangdong province. Because of these informants, over 14,500 illegal drug cases have been solved, about 19,000 detained and 8.32 tons of drugs seized. All these cases comprise nearly 20 percent of the drug-related incident since 2013.

As of now, Deng claims that there are 14 cities in Guangdong province currently implementing the scheme. 

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