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Drugs case leads to rare wood inquiry

The Royal Forest Department and Department of Special Investigation (DSI) have teamed up to find out why a now dead member of a drug network had precious wood worth 160 million baht in his possession.

The seizure came during a DSI raid on the dead man’s home to seize assets thought to have been acquired from drug money in tambon Khlong Madua of Krathum Baen district in Samut Sakhon province.

The DSI discovered precious wood that included 409 planks of rosewood, 1,207 blackwood planks, 170 planks of teak and 17 of makha mong.

The house had been owned by Sathit Wiyaporn, who had been a member of a drug network connected to a 508-million-baht drug case.

Cheewapap Cheewatham, director of the Forest Protection and Fire Control Bureau, Royal Forest Department, on Wednesday said an initial investigation showed that most of the wood was likely cut in the Northeast, not…

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