The Customs Department plans to destroy seized luxury cars that have broken down to prevent importers who smuggled them from buying them back at cheap prices, says the department head. Importers always remove some devices from smuggled cars to make engines malfunction, letting customs officials impound the cars before sending representatives to bid on them […]
Three suspects were arrested on Saturday by forestry officials, Army troops and police in Nakhon Ratchasima for allegedly felling a Siamese rosewood tree and smuggling its logs out of the forest. The officials seized four short logs with a combined quantity of 0.26 cubic metres. Full story: The Nation By The Nation
The Customs Department will set up an intelligence gathering centre to keep track on people posing as passengers but in fact are couriers smuggling in brand-name products from overseas. These people often have customers who give them advance orders. Speaking at a customs seminar on Thursday, Customs Department director-general Kulis Sombatsiri said the department had […]
KANCHANABURI: Authorities seized contraband cigarettes and tobacco worth more than 800,000 baht smuggled through the Three Pagodas Pass border crossing in Sangkhla Buri district on Sunday evening. Provincial excise officials, soldiers, police, defence volunteers and local officials intercepted a pickup truck on its way from the border pass at a checkpoint on Highway No.323 linking […]
Police arrested an Indian tourist at the Suvarnabhumi Airport on Thursday after six tortoises and three Meerkat babies were found hidden inside his suitcase. Kamal Batsha Thameem Ansari, 33, was arrested when he was about to board Thai Airways International Flight TG337 to Chennai. Full story: The Nation By The Nation
Twenty-eight Cambodians and a Thai were arrested yesterday and charged with illegal entry, and cutting rosewood trees in Thap Larn national park in Nadee district of Prachinburi province. The Cambodians were rounded up by a combined force of police, soldiers, national park officials and defense volunteers after they fled on foot from the park after […]
PRACHINBURI — A soldier moonlighting as a cigarette smuggler hit and killed a man crossing a street last night while escaping customs officers in a car in Prachinburi city. Army 2nd Lt. Narong Srisak was speeding when he hit Chiad Plengplangsri, who was walking across the road Thursday night at the Nong Cha-Om Fruit Market […]
Immigration police officers will be strict about people carrying “Child Angel” dolls due to fears they could be used to smuggle contraband such as drugs, the national police chief said Monday. Police General Jakthip Chaichinda said that criminals could hide illicit substances in such dolls when travelling. Read more: The Nation
