A Chinese couple are arrested after 4 kilogrammes of heroin was found in the parcel they mailed to Australia through Thailand.
Armed with an criminal arrest warrant dated July 25, narcotics suppression police on Monday apprehended Jun Dai, 42, and his lover Jiali Xie, 28, in front of an eating place in tambon Rai Khing in Mike Phran district, Nakhon Pathom province.
Narcotics Suppression Bureau (NSB) commissioner Pol Lt Gen Sarayuth Sanguanpokhai stated the NSB got examined a package which the couple published to Australia. Within, they found 4. 19kg of heroin.
A warrant was from the Criminal Court. Both suspects were arrested in Nakhon Pathom and charged with possession and attempting to smuggle the category one medication out of the country.
Police also impounded their property worth about 9. 3 million baht in total including six condominium rooms in Bangkok’s Ratchada and Sathon areas as well as in Pattaya, an automobile, cash and precious metal.
In the mean time investigators were working to establish whether the property were obtained utilizing the proceeds from drug trafficking.
The suspects denied the charges and claimed to have been not aware the parcel included illegal narcotics.
They were afterwards handed over to the NSB’s Division 3 intended for legal proceedings to be taken against them.