Kuala Lumpur – A Malaysian court has sentenced two Thai nationals to death by hanging for smuggling more than 20 kilograms of cannabis into the country, a news report said Friday. Iproheng Yeetuwa, 37 and Mueseh Mahsae, 44, were caught in the northern Kedah state in 2009 with 21.6 kilogrammes of cannabis. Read more: The […]
The authorities must do more to stop human trafficking and the mistreatment of labourers in fishing and other low-paid industries Thailand is the regional hub for human trafficking. It is a source and transit venue because of its central location in continental Southeast Asia and because it is surrounded by neighbouring countries with a lower […]
BANGKOK, June 23 – Thai police arrested five Iranian nationals in three separate drug smuggling cases with about 5.8 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine, commonly known as ‘ice’ at Suvarnabhumi Airport said Pol Lt-Gen Adithep Panjamanont, commander of the Narcotics Suppression Bureau at a press briefing on Thursday. Sara Faramazi, 25, and Alireza Rezaei, 23, were […]
Bangkok – Bangkok airport customs officials confiscated 451 turtles and seven baby gavials that had been packed in suitcases on a flight from Dhaka to Bangkok, officials said Thursday. Suvarnabhumi International Airport customs officials on Wednesday found the animals stuffed in four suitcases that had been abandoned at the luggage carousels. Read more: Monsters and […]
Police arrested a suspected wildlife trafficker early Friday who attempted to smuggle live endangered animals, among them leopards and panthers, out of the country in his suitcases, an wildlife protection group said. Noor Mahmoodr, 36, a citizen of the United Arab Emirates, was arrested at Suvarnabhumi Airport as he prepared to fly first class to […]
BANGKOK, April 11 – Thai police on Monday arrested an Iranian man at Suvarnabhumi Airport for smuggling 6.8 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine, also known as ‘ice,’ worth Bt20 million (US$660,000). The arrest of Mehdi Nikzad, 27, was a joint operation between Thailand’ s Narcotics Suppression Bureau, the Immigration Police and Special Branch Police. Read more: […]
BANGKOK, April 8 — Thailand’s Customs Department officials arrested a man in Prachuap Khiri Khan province for attempting to smuggle nearly 2,000 live tree monitor lizards worth more than Bt1.8 million to Bangkok. Customs Department Director-General Prasong Poontaneat told a press conference that a checkpoint set up at Silaloi sub district of Sam Roi Yot […]
Thai customs officials have seized more than two tons of African elephant tusks in the largest haul of smuggled ivory in recent history. The illegal ivory was the biggest smuggling bust by Thailand to date, worth an estimated $3.5 million and the first seized from a boat shipment. Thai customs investigators uncovered 247 African elephant […]
