No. If, as I suspect, this is the pure china white heroin which thailand and neighboring countries are known for, 13 pounds of it represents a huge amount of money, not a diversionary tactic.
1. his life is essentially over
2. someone did him in, business rival or informant.
3. if that was pure or nearly pure china white heroin, 6.6 pounds represents a vast fortune.
didn't his last attempt to "tackle the drug menace" result in a few thousand people getting bumped off w/o the formality of arrests and trials? kinda informal eradication, some might say.