Contraband frozen meat from Brazil the largest-ever seizure of its kind at Sadao checkpoint
Customs officials and soldiers take boxes of smuggled frozen pork from a trailer truck in Sadao district of Songkhla on Wednesday. (Photo: Assawin Pakkawan)
SONGKHLA: Authorities have seized 30 tonnes of smuggled frozen pork from Brazil, worth about 6 million baht, in Sadao district of this southern province.
A combined team of customs officers and soldiers spotted a crew from a container truck, which had crossed the border from Kedah state in Malaysia, loading several boxes onto another truck in tambon Samnakkham in Sadao on Wednesday, said Yutthana Phoonphiphat, director of Customs Region 4.
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