Customs Dept seizes 45-million-baht contraband items in southern border areas

BANGKOK, 20 December 2016 (NNT) – The Customs Department seized some 45 million baht in contraband goods smuggled in southern border areas.

Customs Department Director General Kulit Sombatsiri said some 300 items had been smuggled in the southern border areas and confiscated by the authorities, including watches, perfumes, eyeglasses, women’s handbags, clothes, cell phones and sneakers as well as 16,000 kilograms of frozen cattle meat.

Read more: NNT

Reporter: Tanakorn Sangiam
Rewriter: tewit kemtong

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