Drug ingredient stopped at Myanmar border

[webfact]

Drug ingredient stopped at Myanmar border

By The Nation

 

 

Thai authorities on Sunday intercepted 3,500 kilograms of sodium cyanide heading across the border to Myanmar.
 

The chemical compound, a substrate used in the production of narcotics, was hidden among shoes and toys in a pickup truck driven by a 25-year-old Myanmar man.

 

Tak Governor Charoenrit Sa-nguansat announced on Monday that Kyaw Phyo Aung was arrested and 70 50-kilogram containers of sodium cyanide were seized at the Mae Sot-Myawaddy border checkpoint on the Thai-Myanmar Friendship I Bridge.

 

 

The authorities were on the lookout for the shipment, having intercepted a slightly smaller load in Chiang Rai on March 26.

 

Mae Sot Customs chief Wallop Wutthapanich said officials became suspicious because the truck was obviously carrying a much heavier load than what was indicated on the driver’s declaration of goods.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30344363

 

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[worgeordie]

I wonder if these drug takers know what was in the drugs and how 

they are manufactured, would they still take them, i suppose the

answer is yes,unfortunately,

regards worgeordie

[sweatalot]

Sodium Cyanid - lethal poison

[Get Real]

Also used in gold mining, metal hardening and cleaning and degreasing of stainless steel. Two more are chemical synthesis and electroplating.

I guess it´s going to be hard to prove that it was going to be used for drugs.

However, the driver probably don´t know, and will squeek like a chicken. 

Edited May 1, 2018 by Get Real

[Bangkokfunny]

57 minutes ago, webfact said:

3,500 kilograms

In a pickup among with shoes and toys.

In Europe the total weight of a pickup and its content may not exceed 3,500 kg.  

Driver's license B is only valid up to 3,500 kg.

[Guitar God]

Sodium cyanide is a precursor used to make ketamine but it's far from the only thing you can make from it. 

[pieeyed]

HIT is a pick up going to carry 3500 kgs plus other products?

[Get Real]

17 hours ago, Bangkokfunny said:

In a pickup among with shoes and toys.

In Europe the total weight of a pickup and its content may not exceed 3,500 kg.  

Driver's license B is only valid up to 3,500 kg.

Oki doki, and with that you just said?

Edited May 2, 2018 by Get Real

[GBW]

Gold mining perhaps? is ketamine part of the precious metal spectrum?