South Korean man allegedly tricked into smuggling drugs from Phuket to France

[webfact]

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by Petch Petpailin

A South Korean man narrowly avoided arrest after being tricked by a foreign man in Phuket into smuggling drugs from Thailand to France. He sought help from the Thai police just in time.

 

The Embassy of the Republic of Korea contacted officers from Thalang Police Station to investigate the luggage of 65 year old South Korean man, Park Sukhee, at a hotel in the Thalang district at around 11pm on Saturday, January 25.

According to Sukhee, he checked into the hotel on January 24 and was scheduled to travel to France via Qatar Airways on Saturday. As he was preparing to leave the hotel for Phuket International Airport, he noticed that one of his bags was unusually heavy.

Sukhee explained that the luggage had been given to him by a foreign man he had met in Phuket. The foreigner asked him to carry the bag to France, where someone would collect it. Growing suspicious of the bag’s contents, Sukhee sought assistance from the embassy and Thai police.

Upon inspecting the luggage, officers discovered two tightly taped paper bags weighing approximately five kilogrammes. Further investigation revealed that the bags contained heroin. One bag weighed 3.8 kilogrammes, while the other weighed 2.8 kilogrammes.

 

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The drugs were confiscated, and police announced plans to review CCTV footage from the hotel to identify the person responsible for the illegal items.

 

The connection between the suspect and the South Korean man, along with the reasons why Sukhee agreed to transport the items to France has not been disclosed by police.

 

Source: The Thaiger 

-- 2025-01-27

 

 

[Chalong circle]

Sukhee explained that the luggage had been given to him by a foreign man he had met in Phuket. The foreigner asked him to carry the bag to France, where someone would collect it. Growing suspicious of the bag’s contents, Sukhee sought assistance from the embassy and Thai police.

 

 

Sukhee is very clever indeed !

[Gottfrid]

3 hours ago, webfact said:

Sukhee explained that the luggage had been given to him by a foreign man he had met in Phuket. The foreigner asked him to carry the bag to France, where someone would collect it.

He should just be arrested and sent to prison 20 years for that explanation! There are dumb, and dumber. There is even dumbest! I am sorry Mr Sukhee, you do not fit in any category. 

[ukrules]

4 hours ago, Chalong circle said:

Sukhee is very clever indeed !

 

He's not that clever, if someone asked me to carry some luggage through the airport they would be met with an instant 'go <deleted> yourself' response.

 

[Chalong circle]

3 hours ago, ukrules said:

 

He's not that clever, if someone asked me to carry some luggage through the airport they would be met with an instant 'go <deleted> yourself' response.

 

Tongue in cheek comment maybe.

[saakura]

Mr. Sukhee most probably panicked and changed his mind at the last minute.

[Woke to Sounds of Horking]

Fine, jail and lifetime ban from Thailand.

 

There are too many of these stories involving drugs.

 

Drugs cause way too much damage to society to treat these incidents with kid gloves.

[hotchilli]

17 hours ago, webfact said:

Sukhee explained that the luggage had been given to him by a foreign man he had met in Phuket. The foreigner asked him to carry the bag to France, where someone would collect it. Growing suspicious of the bag’s contents, Sukhee sought assistance from the embassy and Thai police.

Someone got cold feet....

[steven100]

that man in the stripped pajamas needs to lose some weight 

[thesetat]

16 hours ago, ukrules said:

 

He's not that clever, if someone asked me to carry some luggage through the airport they would be met with an instant 'go <deleted> yourself' response.

 

Come on.... Do you really believe anyone would accept to carry bags to anther country without some form of payment unless it was family? Especially in Asia? 

I would say this man was very clever indeed. Collected the fee to take the bags and then submitted the bags to the authorities for inspection. My guess is he was paid thinking there were things in the bags not illegal to carry like the drugs found. 

[Justanotherone]

hahaha, seriously

[PETERTHEEATER]

8 hours ago, steven100 said:

that man in the stripped pajamas needs to lose some weight 

Looks like he identifies as 'female'.

[ukrules]

9 hours ago, thesetat said:

Come on.... Do you really believe anyone would accept to carry bags to anther country without some form of payment unless it was family? Especially in Asia? 

I would say this man was very clever indeed. Collected the fee to take the bags and then submitted the bags to the authorities for inspection. My guess is he was paid thinking there were things in the bags not illegal to carry like the drugs found. 

 

Perhaps, however the best way to proceed would be to just dump the bags and leave without them if he was running a scam.

No way a smuggler would ever call the cops, they would just run.

 

When watching documentaries about this sort of thing in the past the luggage is usually handed over to them just before they leave and they are supervised exiting the country, perhaps with someone else following on the same flight.

So it doesn't add up - maybe everyone involved here at each level of the scheme is an idiot - I wouldn't rule that out at all.

 

 

[ryxyz]

On 1/27/2025 at 12:13 AM, Chalong circle said:

Sukhee explained that the luggage had been given to him by a foreign man he had met in Phuket. The foreigner asked him to carry the bag to France, where someone would collect it. Growing suspicious of the bag’s contents, Sukhee sought assistance from the embassy and Thai police.

 

 

Sukhee is very clever indeed !

Was that after collecting payment for being a mule?