Drug haul shrinks to just 1g of ketamine
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published : 16 Dec 2020 at 04:40
34 Wichai Chaimongkol, secretary-general of the Office of the Narcotics Control Board, inspects what turned out to be trisodium phosphate, in Chachoengsao province last month. (Police photo)
Authorities said on Tuesday that just over one gramme of ketamine had been found in a seizure that police had initially believed contained over 12 tonnes of the drug worth almost US$1 billion (30 billion baht).
Wichai Chaimongkol, secretary-general of the Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB), told a news conference 12.1 tonnes of the haul contained trisodium phosphate a chemical which can be used as a food additive and cleaning agent.