A major international drug bust took place in Thailand yesterday with more than 100 kilogrammes of narcotics intercepted, and a group of suspects from three countries arrested, the Narcotics Control Board (NCB) reported.
NCB secretary-general Wichai Chaimongkhon stated that Thai authorities received an anonymous tip-off on Tuesday about a heroin shipment heading from Thailand to Australia.
Collaborating with a joint task force, the NCB successfully seized 80 bricks of heroin, weighing a total of 29.6kg. The cache had been hidden inside plastic resin and was set to be shipped out of a warehouse in the Bung Kum district of Bangkok.
During the raid, the police arrested Kanda Kanthong, a 34 year old woman from Songkhla. She allegedly confessed to being hired by Leung Ka Wing, a 63 year old Malaysian man, Bangkok Post reported.
The Malaysian suspect was later apprehended at a petrol…
