Taiwanese and Thai nationals charged for heroin smuggling

Taiwanese aviation police have cracked down on an international drug cartel smuggling heroin which involved one Taiwanese and four Thai nationals.

The cunning scheme involved smuggling a whopping 36.644 kilogrammes of heroin into Taiwan, with an eye-watering value of over US$3.1 million (approximately 113 million baht), as disclosed in a press release by the Aviation Police Bureau (APB) yesterday.

According to the APB, the four Thai nationals, belonging to the ethnic Mon community, slipped into Taiwan disguised as tourists last December. They were allegedly led by a Mon chief named Sae, who enticed his fellow tribal members into the illicit operation by promising them a hefty sum of 800,000 Thai baht each.

Under Sae’s directives, the suspects ingeniously concealed 9 kilogrammes of drugs within ethnic-style fabric art…