The Supreme Court has rejected a Lao drug kingpin’s request to appeal his life sentence for smuggling more than a million “yaba” pills into Thailand.
In a decision read out at the Criminal Court in Bangkok on Tuesday, the Supreme Court ruled that the life sentence confirmed by two lower courts for Xaysana Keopimpha was final.
According to prosecutors, on Sept 30, 2016 Xaysana, 44, and accomplices conspired to transport 1.2 million methamphetamine pills into Thailand in a car across the Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge and through the Nong Khai immigration checkpoint. The drugs were hidden in a false compartment under the car’s roof.
The drugs were seized and some of the accomplices arrested and…
