PUBLISHED: 28 Jun 2024 at 04: 00
Yesterday, the Customs Department announced its new accomplishments, with three significant narcotics cases brought to light.
These, according to deputy finance minister Julapun Amornvivat, were the result of cooperation between the Customs Department and the Airport Interdiction Task Force ( AITF), a joint force made up of the Office of the Narcotics Control Board ( ONCB) and the Narcotics Suppression Bureau ( NSB ).
Theeraj Athanavanich, producer- standard of the Customers Department, said the first imprisonment was on June 21 when a North American girl, whose identity was withheld, departed from Nairobi, Kenya, for Suvarnabhumi airport.
Officers discovered that she had smuggled 415 grams of heroin by ingesting 35 packs of the substance. Its value, according to authorities, is estimated to be around 1.2 million baht. She was arrested at the airports.
The next case was discovered on June 22 when an AITF group discovered methamphetamine in a package leaving for South Korea at the Suvarnabhumi Post Office.
Inside the piece registered as” snack, milk powders” were 13, 850 meth tablets hidden in two milk flour boxes with a street value of 415, 500 baht.
The second incident occurred on Wednesday when a Thai person was detained before boardboarding a plane from Suvarnabhumi aircraft to Male in the Islands. Her identity was also withheld.
Two taped vinyl bags containing two kilograms of crystal methamphetamine, or ya snow, were discovered by the police inside two carry-on bags. The drug’s market price was roughly 2 million ringgit.
According to Mr. Julapun, all three suspects were charged with bringing narcotics into the country and smuggling them, as well as with breaking the Customs Act BE 2560 ( 2017 ).
This month, the Customs Department made arrests in three different scenarios of smuggling dried cannabis flowers at the aircraft. Authorities seized 291.1kg of flowers with a total price of 10.8 million ringgit, he said.
Additionally, the office seized 1,750-gram improper cigarettes valued at more than 30.9 million ringgit. On the import and export statements, the product was labeled as having” steering hands.” It was sent from the United Arab Emirates, and the place was Australia.