Cushion covers laced with "ice" - NCB report nearly two dozen Australian smuggling cases

[webfact]

Picture: Thai Rath

 

Chief of the Narcotics Control Board Wanchai Chaimongkhol said yesterday that officers of the AITF (Airport Interdiction Task Force) had found drugs in cushion covers bound for Australia at a depot at Suvarnabhumi on Thursday.

 

The crystal meth was laced in the lining of 11 covers in two separate packages.

 

Authorities had been alerted to the fact that the products were heavier and more rigid than they should be and there were irregularities with the manifest.

 

A total of 13.94 kilos of what the Thais call "ice" was discovered.

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

The sender and the receiver are known to police and the Australian Federal Police have been contacted. 

 

In the last fiscal year Wanchai said there had been 22 cases of drugs being sent to Australia in all manner of ways to fool the authorities, reported Thai Rath.

 

Sending in this manner is economical for the drugs gangs.

 

There have been two arrests - a Thai and a Singaporean - in these cases. 

 

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[wombat]

the old in the covers of the cushions one...pfft...these guys obviously don't watch Border Patrol.

[RichardColeman]

6 hours ago, webfact said:

Authorities had been alerted to the fact that the products were heavier and more rigid than they should be and there were irregularities with the manifest.

i would have thought they would have been more alerted by the drug dogs going loopy !

[hotchilli]

20 hours ago, webfact said:

The sender and the receiver are known to police and the Australian Federal Police have been contacted.

Yet still active?