Lai Changxing, dubbed the Bandit King, has been given a life sentence for years of smuggling and corruption that added up to billions of US dollars or Pounds sterling. The Chinese court described the values as “massive”. Lai smuggled goods worth more than £2 billion into Xiamen, bypassing more than £1 billion in import duty. […]
HONG KONG, May 17 – Numbers of Thai women have been jailed in Hong Kong for drug smuggling as they were deceived by a Nigerian drug cartel using them as dealers. Deputy Consul-General Suree Trairatananukool of Royal Thai Consulate-General in Hong Kong said drug gangs lured Thai women to smuggle drugs by asking them to […]
A 19 year-old man was arrested while trying to smuggle a cell phone into Chiang Rai Prison. Nineteen year-old Kietkul Cheurmur, a native of Chiang Rai Province, was arrested while trying to throw ten cellphone headsets across the wall of Chiang Rai Central Prison. Read more: TAN Network
BANGKOK, April 25 – The authorities in the Thai capital’s Suvarnabhumi Airport on Wednesday intercepted and seized 22 contraband African elephant tusks, and 44 sawn pieces of ivory worth more than Bt3 million in a shipment from Nigeria. Customs Department Director of Investigation and Suppression Rakob Srisupa-at told a news conference that the confiscated ivory […]
Thai customs officials have arrested two Taiwanese captains and 12 Taiwanese and Indonesian crew members after their two tuna fishing boats were found to have smuggled 47,000 litres of diesel oil into Phuket. The two boats were found floating about two nautical miles north of Taphao Yai Island in Phuket. Read more: The Nation
Thai Police yesterday seized 630 dogs discovered in a warehouse in Mukdahan’s Wan Yai district and another 250 dogs found in cages left in a wooded area of Muang district. The dogs are believed to have been destined for dinner tables in a neighbouring country. Read more: The Nation
BANGKOK, April 10 – Thai and Cambodian officials met Tuesday to discuss the logging and trade in Siamese rosewood along the two countries’ borders. Ministry of Foreign Affairs Information Department Director-General Thani Thongpakdee told a news conference here of an over three-hour meeting between representatives of both countries, during which he said Cambodia had expressed […]
The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) yesterday revealed that about 83 per cent of the smuggling of cold medicine with pseudoephedrine happened through Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport, while the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering ending imports of the cold medicine after one year. DSI chief Tharit Pengdit spoke yesterday at a seminar on the […]
