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Answers are slowly being revealed about a couple found dumped only metres apart in Botany earlier this month.
Zhuojun “Sally” Li was found wrapped in plastic near Sydney airport on 9 December, with police finding the body of her husband, Jai-Bao “Rex” Chen, just 10 meters away the following week.
Police believe the couple were murdered at their home in Greenacre around the end of November.
Det Supt Danny Doherty said that the couple were likely a targeted double murder, and that the killers were motivated by Chen and Li’s financial debts.
“They owed money,” he said. “There was no other criminality that we were aware of, and certainly Sally has unfortunately become a victim because of that.”
“Sally has unfortunately become a victim because of that.”
Husband involved in drug operations
Today the Sydney Morning Herald reported that Chen was arrested after a dial-a-dealer drug sting in 2020, when he was a driver for LeafedOut, a website that connected cannabis dealers and buyers.
Chen delivered cannabis flower and edibles throughout Sydney, and was caught after delivering hundreds of dollars worth of edibles to an undercover officer who paid him with traced bills.
Chen pleaded guilty to seven possess or supply cannabis charges in November 2020, and was released with a 12-month community corrections order, only to be found guilty of small-scale supply again in July 2022. He was given another 18-month community corrections order.
Third party suspected
CCTV from a nearby industrial area showed a silver Toyota Avensis at the scene where the couple’s bodies were dumped, which has now been seized by police. The car wasn’t owned by Li or Chen, and is believed to be linked to the two people involved in their deaths.
Police believe that two people after those two people killed the husband and wife, they drove their bodies to Botany in the early hours of November 30, before fleeing potentially to China or Taiwan.
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