PHOTOS: Confidential has been arrested trying to smuggle 216 kilograms of marijuana into Malaysia. The fishing boat had been modified for the aim of hiding and smuggling the medicine.
Officials acquired a tip-off earlier this week that a large batch of marijuana was being saved in Satun’s Tambon Tammalang district. Officials had learnt that a large shipment of marijuana had been transported from Northern Thailand to Satun within the south and was being saved earlier than being shipped to Malaysia.
Provincial authorities arrested 45 yr old fisherman Ari Leesa and seized the marijuana at Tammalang pier yesterday (Thursday). He informed police he hired for one hundred,000 baht to ship the marijuana into Malaysia.
Satun’s police chief famous that the seized medicine might fetch as much as 5,000 per kilogram in Thailand and maybe double that in Malaysia. He informed a media conference at present that police are actually tracking down the ‘mastermind’ who is suspected to be a Satun resident.
SOURCE: The Nation