Prawit orders better joint effort to stem drug influx
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published : 8 Feb 2021 at 04:30
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Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon has ordered security officials to closely cooperate with the Office of the Narcotics Control Board to prevent the trafficking of narcotics from the Golden Triangle into Thailand, as drug labs across the border switch to more cost-effective methods of production.
The order followed an intelligence report which suggests that producers in the Golden Triangle region are using new precursors to make methamphetamine that allows them to slash production costs by four times and offer lower prices to consumers in Thailand, said Gen Prawit s spokesman, Lt Gen Koncheep Tantravanich.
17 Police arrest Chou Yi Shen (seated) at a condominium in Ratchathewi district in Bangkok on Monday. (Royal Thai Police photo)
A Taiwanese man has been arrested with large quantities of drugs believed to have been used in making the âk-powdered milkâ cocktail, during a raid in Bangkok.
Chou Yi Shen, 38, was arrested on Monday with drugs at a condominium in Ratchathewi district.
He was interrogated immediately by a team which included police chief Gen Suwat Jangyodsuk.
After he confessed, police searched his other rooms at five-star condominiums in Huai Khawang, Wang Thong Lang and Klong Toey districts and found more evidence.