A Nepali man was arrested at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport yesterday after customs found 5.6 kilograms of hashish hidden in his luggage with an estimated value of 560,000 baht.
At 6.45pm, airport customs officials inspected a suitcase belonging to a man flying in from Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu.
As the unnamed Nepali national passed through nothing to declare, customs asked him to put his pull-along black suitcase through the X-ray machine.
Customs officials found an “abnormality” so they inspected the suitcase to find it had a secret compartment which they opened with a screwdriver.
Inside, customs found a 98 x 98 centimetre brown substance in block form wrapped in a plastic bag. A sample was tested and came back positive for hashish, also known as hash.
Hashish is a concentrated form of the psychoactive compound found in the cannabis plant –…
