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Prawit orders better joint effort to stem drug influx
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published : 8 Feb 2021 at 04:30
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Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon has ordered security officials to closely cooperate with the Office of the Narcotics Control Board to prevent the trafficking of narcotics from the Golden Triangle into Thailand, as drug labs across the border switch to more cost-effective methods of production.
The order followed an intelligence report which suggests that producers in the Golden Triangle region are using new precursors to make methamphetamine that allows them to slash production costs by four times and offer lower prices to consumers in Thailand, said Gen Prawit s spokesman, Lt Gen Koncheep Tantravanich.
AFP
Updated at 12:20 p.m. ET on 2021-02-05
Methamphetamine production has quadrupled in Southeast Asia’s Golden Triangle region in recent years, the head of the U.N.’s counter-narcotics office in Bangkok told BenarNews on Thursday, saying illegal manufacturers of synthetic drugs have changed ingredients used to start the process.
In the past, enforcement agencies tracked pseudoephedrine and ephedrine, two chemicals used to produce methamphetamine, said Jeremy Douglas, Southeast Asia and Pacific representative for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
Now, three precursors – phenyl 2-propanone, caffeine and propionyl chloride – are being used, according to a Thai press release.
AFP
Updated at 12:20 p.m. ET on 2021-02-05
Methamphetamine production has quadrupled in Southeast Asia’s Golden Triangle region in recent years, the head of the U.N.’s counter-narcotics office in Bangkok told BenarNews on Thursday, saying illegal manufacturers of synthetic drugs have changed ingredients used to start the process.
In the past, enforcement agencies tracked pseudoephedrine and ephedrine, two chemicals used to produce methamphetamine, said Jeremy Douglas, Southeast Asia and Pacific representative for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
Now, three pre-cursors – phenyl 2-propanone, caffeine and propionyl chloride – are being used, according to a Thai press release.
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He has also been the chairman of the Narcotics Control Board of Ghana.
In 2005, he was Ghana s High Commissioner to Nigeria.
Joshua Hamidu had been accused in some circles of being implicated in the killing of the Overlord of Dagbon, the late Ya-Na, Yakubu Andani II in March 2002.
The Wuaku Commission which investigated the circumstances leading to the tragedy cleared him of any wrongdoing. Source: Pulse Ghana