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Hong Kong Customs officers seized 61 kilograms of suspected heroin, with an estimated market value of about $65 million, from a seaborne consignment that arrived from Thailand on July 22.

Officials from the Customs Department and the Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) seized 314 kilograms of heroin concealed in paint buckets in a shipping container at Laem Chabang Port, Chonburi. The heroin was earmarked to be shipped to Australia.

Hong Kong Customs has confiscated about 23.5 kilograms of suspected heroin with an estimated market value of about $29 million at Kwai Chung Customhouse Cargo Examination Compound on May 27.

Police raided targeted locations in Chiang Mai’s Fang and Mae Ai districts to arrest eight drug suspects and seize 220 assets worth Bt150 million to see if they were sourced illegally.

A 38-year-old man from Taiwan, scheduled to board a flight to his home country, was arrested at Don Mueang International Airport with 7.2 kilograms of heroin.

The Police Narcotics Suppression Bureau recently made seven drug busts that netted 10 suspects and resulted in the confiscation of 10 million methamphetamine pills and nearly four kilograms of heroin.

A Canadian man and his Thai male accomplice have been arrested in a joint operation to crack down on a transnational drug trafficking ring that tried to smuggle heroin hidden in automobile shock absorbers into Australia, Niyom Termsrisuk secretary-general of the Office of Narcotics Control Board (ONCB), told a press conference in Bangkok on Sunday.

A MONTH of huge drug hauls worth more than Bt4.5 billion in total has triggered alarm at the extent of narcotics-trafficking in Thailand and brought renewed efforts by authorities to curb the problem.

Police in Chiang Mai on Tuesday arrested four men – one Shan and three Taiwanese – and seized 200 bars of heroin worth Bt200 million.

Police in Chiang Rai are seeking a man who tried to send 21 kilos of heroin in parcels to Taiwan.

Two Songkhla women were arrested on Thursday morning with 225 grams of heroin allegedly hidden in their bras and underpants.

Six Nepalese men and one Indian national accused of being members of a transnational drug-trafficking syndicate that transported drugs by having people swallow dozens of capsules containing heroin were arrested last week, Immigration Police commander Pol Maj- General Chuchat Thareechat told the press in Bangkok on Monday.