PUBLISHED : 1 Mar 2024 at 04:00
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About 21 million baht worth of heroin has been seized from two Australia-bound parcels containing moisturising cream tubes at the Suvarnabhumi airport mail centre.
Airport Interdiction Task Force and Customs officials made the discovery when they examined two suspicious parcels on Wednesday.
Upon opening the packages, on which the items inside were declared as “cream”, the officers found heroin stuffed inside tubes of moisturising cream, Customs Department spokesman Phanthong Loykulnanta said yesterday.
The drugs, weighing 7.2 kilogrammes, were worth about 21.5 million baht. The parcels were destined for Australia, said Mr Phanthong.
The Customs Department is working with the Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) and the police Narcotics Suppression Bureau to extend the investigation to find those involved in the attempted drug smuggling.
From Oct 1 last year to Feb 29, customs officials seized 64 batches of illicit drugs worth 351.3 million baht, according to the spokesman.
The department has instructed its officials to be on full alert for drug smuggling as traffickers employ many devious methods to take illicit drugs out of the country.