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Thai drug lord ‘becomes Korean’ with plastic surgery to evade the law

Thai police arrested a “handsome Korean man” in Bangkok today who is in fact a wanted Thai drug lord who underwent loads of plastic surgery and changed his name to present as a Korean man to avoid prosecution.

Police arrested 25 year old “Jimin Cheong,” formerly Sarahat Sawangjaeng, at a condominium in the Bang Na district of Bangkok under an arrest warrant issued by the Criminal Court on December 2.

Sarahat admitted to importing copious amounts of MDMA from European countries into Thailand by ordering the drugs via the dark web and paying with Bitcoin before selling it to customers in Bangkok and surrounding areas.

The drug trafficker continually underwent plastic surgery over the years to keep under the radar.

On November 11 last year, Thai customs officials found 2,575 grams of MDMA and 290 ecstasy pills inside a jigsaw puzzle box inside an incoming package. Police were…

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