Medication discovered inside tubes of moisturising cream seized at Suvarnabhumi mail centre
PUBLISHED : 29 Feb 2024 at 16:16
About 21 million baht value of heroin has been seized from two Australia-bound parcels of moisturising cream tubes on the Suvarnabhumi airport mail centre.
Customs officers and officers from the Airport Interdiction Job Drive (AITF) made the invention once they examined two suspected parcels on Wednesday.
Upon opening the parcels, on which the objects inside had been declared as “cream”, the officers discovered heroin stuffed inside tubes of moisturising cream, Customs Division spokesman Phanthong Loykulnanta mentioned on Thursday.
The medicine, weighing 7.2 kilogrammes in complete, had been value about 21.5 million baht. The parcels had been destined for Australia, mentioned Mr Phanthong.
The Customs Division is working with the Workplace of the Narcotics Management Board and the police Narcotics Suppression Bureau to increase the investigation to seek out these concerned within the drug smuggling.
From Oct 1 final 12 months to Feb 29, customs officers seized 64 batches of illicit medicine value about 351.3 million baht, in keeping with the spokesman.
The division has instructed its officers to be on full alert for drug smuggling as traffickers make use of many devious strategies to deliver illicit medicine in another country with out being detected.
Customs officers present heroin discovered stuffed inside tubes of cream. (Picture: Customs Division)
Heroin from one of many two parcels seized on the Suvarnabhumi mail centre is displayed throughout a media briefing. (Picture: Customs Division)
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