News Forum - Customs department seizes 897 kg of meth headed to Taiwan

[Thaiger]

At Bangkok port today, customs department officials intercepted and seized nearly 900 kilogrammes of crystal meth bound for Taiwan. An informant tipped off customs officials that a gigantic stash of crystal methamphetamine was being moved today and customs responded and tracked down the illegal drug shipment. Customs officials found 24 cardboard boxes that were suspect and, when they were all x-rayed, stacked packets could be seen inside each box. The boxes and packets were opened and the contents inside were tested. The testing confirmed that the substance in the packages was 897 kilogrammes of crystal meth. The packages were scheduled […]

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[Dedinbed]

38 minutes ago, Thaiger said:

officials found 24 cardboard boxes that were suspect and, when they were all x-rayed, stacked packets could be seen inside each box. The boxes and packets were opened and the contents inside were tested.

Sounds like the officials were boxing clever then .. don't meth with Thai Customs is the message here .. 

[Jason]

There's been quite a number of these large seizures lately.... tip offs perhaps?

[Fanta]

5 hours ago, Jason said:

There's been quite a number of these large seizures lately.... tip offs perhaps?

“An informant tipped off customs officials that a gigantic stash of crystal methamphetamine was being moved today and customs responded and tracked down the illegal drug shipment.”
 

The ThaI legal system awards sentence reductions to people busted with drugs that inform on their suppliers. It’s called a 100/2 and reductions average 30% off a sentence. This reward for informing is for only drug cases and partly explains why a small bust in the news one day is followed by a bigger bust the next a day and on it goes until the last person busted either knows nothing or is unhelpful. And people like Isuzu Joe know how to get info from people not willing to play ball. Side note: it’d be interesting to see the amount of big drug arrests made by Isuzu Joe.  I suspect they’d mostly be small busts and the big guys just can’t be found ;-)