ANTI-NARCOTICS agents yesterday arrested a Filipino-Chinese said to be the consignee of a huge volume of cocaine sneaked  into the country by an international syndicate  in an entrapment in Mandaluyong City.
    
Philippine National Police-Anti-Illegal Drugs Special Operations Task Force chief Deputy Director General Jefferson P. Soriano identified the suspect as Michael Lee.
   
Lee was nabbed shortly after he received the cocaine in a sting at Juban Condominium at the corner of Samat Street and Shaw Blvd. in Mandaluyong City. He was taken to the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency headquarters for interrogation.
   
Chief Insp. Ismael Fajardo, Jr. of the PNP-AIDSOTF said the drugs were wrapped in satin sheet and sewn  into  the carpet made of animal skin.
   
Police have yet to determine the volume of the cocaine seized from Lee.
   
The PNP-AIDSOTF said that Customs officials at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport nearly bungled their plan to arrest the suspect despite advance coordination.
   
A German officer posed as “drug courier” and led Philippine authorities to a drug consignee he was about to meet at the airport. The German is now under the protective custody of the PNP-AIDSOTF.
   
Fajardo said German Embassy officials were disturbed when the BoC-NAIA reported that a compatriot was arrested at the NAIA Wednesday for possession of 2.5 kilos of cocaine.
   
BoC-NAIA District Collector Carlos So said they received information that a big shipment of cocaine would be smuggled into the country.
   
It turned out later that there was prior coordination between the police, PDEA and BoC-CIIS for the “controlled delivery” of drugs to materialize.