Hong Kong police have smashed a syndicate that used provocatively dressed foreign women to sell drugs at pubs and entertainment venues, arresting three people and seizing HK$5.2 million (US$663,080) worth of narcotics.The arrests came during an operation carried out on Friday to target the income sources of triad societies, Chief Inspector Man Cheuk-hei of the Kowloon East regional anti-triad unit said on Saturday.“They also hired some foreign ladies in sexy clothes as their drug salespeople, hoping to easily push the drugs into the market and increase their drug-trafficking profits,” he said.“They would also rent some old-style private units in areas crowded with pubs and entertainment venues as their drug distribution centres.”Man said officers intercepted a foreign woman outside a private residential flat in Central on Friday evening, and while entering the premises to carry out a search, they simultaneously arrested a local man near the building.Police seized about 7.2kg (15.9lbs) of cocaine and 500 grams of ketamine, methamphetamine and other drugs, with a market value of more than HK$5.2 million, he said.