Asia s methamphetamine cartels from China to Myanmar are using creative chemistry to outfox police, experts say CNN 43 mins ago © CNN Illustration/Getty Images
The shipping container raised suspicions as soon as it arrived in remote northwestern Laos last July.
Paperwork showed it was packed with 72 tons worth of blue vats filled with propionyl chloride, a relatively obscure chemical, and bound for an area in northern Myanmar notorious for the industrial-scale manufacturing of synthetic drugs.
The cargo had been procured by a broker based in territory controlled by the United Wa State Army, a militia that for years has been accused of funding itself through drug sales.
Asia s methamphetamine cartels from China to Myanmar are using creative chemistry to outfox police, experts say
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