B50m crystal meth packaged as durian paste seized at border

October 3, 2023

PUBLISHED : 3 Oct 2023 at 14:38

Packages labelled as durian paste, but actually containing grade A crystal meth worth about one million baht a kilo, seized from a truck at the Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge in Nakhon Phanom on Tuesday. (Photo: Pattanapong Sripiachai)

NAKHON PHANOM: Fifty kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine packaged as durian paste was seized from a truck arriving from Laos at the Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge on Tuesday.

The driver-smuggler fled safely back to Laos.

The border bust…