Thai police seize 3.1 tonnes of cannabis bound for Australia in Chonburi
Thai border police seized 3,155 kg of marijuana at a warehouse in Chonburi on 4 September 2016 and arrested a Thai and a Taiwanese suspect. Police said the cannabis was smuggled from Laos, vacuum-sealed at the site and labelled as rubber gloves for shipment to Australia.
🇹🇭 warehouse in Chonburi, southeast of Bangkok · Thailand
Thai police seized3,155 kilograms (6,940 pounds) of marijuana from a warehouse in Chonburi, about 60 kilometres southeast of Bangkok, in the country’s biggest cannabis seizure since May 2014.[1]Border Patrol Police official Prapan Chan-em said the raid happened on Sunday after a tip-off the previous month that marijuana was being smuggled from Laos into northeastern Thailand.[1]
The smuggling front
Police arrested a 44-year-old Thai man and a 64-year-old Taiwanese man at the warehouse, which Prapan said had operated for nine years as a drug-smuggling front jointly run by Thais and Taiwanese.[1]The cannabis was vacuum-sealed at the site and labelled as rubber gloves for shipment to Australia.[1]The previous record seizure, about five tonnes, was found in May 2014 at a warehouse in Pathum Thani after the same Laos route was used for shipments to Europe and Australia.[1]
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