Man claiming Bt12m first-prize lottery win arrested on trafficking charge

[webfact]

Man claiming Bt12m first-prize lottery win arrested on trafficking charge

By The Nation

 

 

A man claiming to have won a first-prize lottery for Bt12 million was arrested, and a small bag of methamphetamine pills were seized from his new house in Samut Sakhon’s Ban Praew district, after he was suspected of laundering drug money.

 

Acting on tip-offs about a house in Moo 6 village in Tambon Ban Praew of Ban Praew district, police raided it and arrested the owner, Yut Wongthanom, 38.

Police found a plastic bag with 31 meth pills buried under a mango tree inside his house compound.

 

Yut claimed that he had won Bt12 million from two first-prize winning lottery tickets in the July 16 draw. He said he spent Bt7 million to buy a 4-rai plot of land and another Bt3.5 million to build a house on the land where he is living.

 

He claimed that he did not sell drugs, but had bought them for his own use and that of his friends who often visited him to use the drugs for free.

 

But police said they suspected that the man had spent money earned from drug trafficking to buy winning lottery tickets in order to launder the drug money.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30374467

 

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[Justgrazing]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

 

He claimed that he did not sell drugs, but had bought them for his own use and that of his friends who often visited him to use the drugs for free.

Hahahaha yea right .. Buy the gear for the homie's to come around to you're house to get mashed on freebie .. As plausible goes .. not very .. 

[SOTIRIOS]

..confiscate all his assets and distribute them to the poor...!

[teelac5]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

But police said they suspected that the man had spent money earned from drug trafficking to buy winning lottery tickets in order to launder the drug money.

I know the police make some unbelievably dumb statements but this has to be the most ridiculous one ever.

[worgeordie]

So are the police suggesting that he paid say 15 million in dirty money,

to buy 12 million in lottery tickets.

regards worgeordie

[hotchilli]

10 hours ago, worgeordie said:

So are the police suggesting that he paid say 15 million in dirty money,

to buy 12 million in lottery tickets.

regards worgeordie

Amazing Thailand... you really couldn't make this up anywhere else!