The Office of the Narcotics Control Board has seized over one billion baht worth of assets belonging to members of a major drug smuggling network in the North, ONCB secretary-general Wichai Chaimongkol said yesterday.
According to Mr Wichai, the network routinely trafficked heroin produced in Myanmar s Golden Triangle to Malaysia via Thailand.
The asset seizures followed three different operations which took place earlier this year.
On Feb 3, Narcotics Suppression Bureau officers arrested two suspects with 100 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine, or ice , and 381 meth pills in their possession in Mae Sai district of Chiang Rai.
Then on Feb 18, ONCB officials along with Region 5 police officers arrested three suspects and seized 100 slabs of heroin in Nan. From them, Mr Wichai said, authorities seized 34.9 million baht worth of drug-related assets.
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