Another African smuggler with cocaine in his stomach nailed after arrival at Bangkok airport

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Picture: Thai Rath

 

Thai Rath reported on customs activity of the Airport Interdiction Task Force (AITF) at Suvarnabhumi airport.

 

Officials were suspicious of a 44 year old man from Guinea who arrived from Nigeria via Ethiopia on Saturday.

 

A check of his luggage revealed nothing but he was watched at his hotel where he did the one night quarantine. 

 

When he left next morning he was arrested and taken back to the airport where an xray revealed mysterious packets in his stomach. 

 

Picture Siam Rath

 

Siam Rath who also reported the story had a picture of the suspect having his bags searched. He appeared to have a distended stomach. 

 

By Tuesday he had evacuated these items from his system - there were 54 packets of cocaine weighing 1,080 grams worth 3,240,000 baht. 

 

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He has been charged with smuggling a Class 2 narcotic and detained.

 

Thai Rath quoted a  customs spokesman saying that since October 30 cases have been handled with a drug value of 883,966,250 baht.

 

Recently ASEAN NOW had a report of a similar story about a Sierra Leone man who was found with cocaine in his luggage after a stay at a quarantine hotel.

 

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[JoePai]

Why was his stomach nailed ?   

[toofarnorth]

8 minutes ago, JoePai said:

Why was his stomach nailed ?   

+ 1

[toofarnorth]

Got ot now , very slow today.  His stomach wasn't nailed but he had his collar felt.

[wombat]

5 hours ago, JoePai said:

Why was his stomach nailed ?   

To relieve the gas from the distended stomach prior to evacuation?

[TheFishman1]

I don’t understand why they just did an x-ray him at the airport when he arrived it was a show in the x-ray

[tubby johnson]

Quality African tourist

[ChrisY1]

They keep letting 'em in....so this stuff will keep coming in....along with the romance scams..drugs on the street and all the other niceties that these people seem to deliver!

[NaaKap]

Oh Well TAT did say they wanted only rich tourists ????

Make life miserable for the dirty westerners and European falangs that have been supporting the economy to the tune of billions of baht per year. I appreciate covid has changed things a lot But Thailand was always a fun place, Not too dangerous,. Prices relatively cheap and not too many scum like this lurking around soy 11. TAT's attitude to us has imho turned many regulars away for life. Retirees begin to look elsewhere and the place starts to go downhill with the scum filling the void. Oh how I wish it was 15 - 20 years ago. The only silver lining is another Scumbag bites the dust ???? 

[hotchilli]

6 hours ago, JoePai said:

Why was his stomach nailed ?   

Take the swelling down?

[oobar]

3 hours ago, ChrisY1 said:

They keep letting 'em in....so this stuff will keep coming in....along with the romance scams..drugs on the street and all the other niceties that these people seem to deliver!

So they should stop letting "'em" in, as in folks from Africa -- or just Blacks?  That's surely not what you mean, is it?

[SW Happy]

How desperate must you have to be. Imagine all the forms for visas, test and go, RT-PCR tests, etc, etc.