FDA ceremony to torch 3.4 tonnes of seized drugs
The Nation



BANGKOK: -- The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will burn 3.4 tonnes of illicit drugs worth Bt10 billion, as part of the country's 42nd official illicit-drug incineration ceremony in Ayutthaya's Bang Pa-in Industrial Estate on June 26, FDA chief Boonchai Somboonsuk said yesterday.

The drugs, seized from 2,584 cases, included 31 million yaba tablets, 298 kilograms of "ice", 125 kg of heroin and 125,000 pseudo-ephedrine-laced medicine tablets plus 322,620 millimeters of pseudo-ephidrine liquid medicine. They will be destroyed by the environmentally-friendly "pyrolytic incineration" method which will burn the drugs at a temperature of over 850 degrees Celsius.

This haul of drugs is larger than a previous lot burned on June 29 last year when 2.7 tonnes were destroyed, Boonchai said.

The country's largest haul of drugs to be incinerated was in 2003 when 5.9 tonnes of drugs worth Bt14.5 billion were destroyed.

In related news, Ayutthaya police yesterday seized 500,000 yaba tablets and 30 kg of "ice" worth Bt340 million in street value from a Bang Pa-in district house used by a Hmong drug network as a drug store.

They also arrested a suspect identified as Hmong man Kriengsak Chotipongniran, 27, who reportedly confessed to getting the yaba from a Chiang Rai couple to keep in the house pending distribution to other retail drug dealers.


-- The Nation 2013-06-20

3.4 tonnes sitting for a week waiting to be burned. And they give the address. Hope it's all well guarded.

Were the " drugs " burned real or something supposed to be drugs while the genuine articles are on distribution elsewhere ?

I'm amazed that Yingluck and Chalerm haven't got the BiB selling the stuff on the streets so they could proudly claim they have reduced the rice pledging loss from 260 Billion to 250 Billion.

So that will be 3.4 tones of paracetamol off to the incinerator in brown boxes then.

I'm amazed that Yingluck and Chalerm haven't got the BiB selling the stuff on the streets so they could proudly claim they have reduced the rice pledging loss from 260 Billion to 250 Billion.

So that will be 3.4 tones of paracetamol off to the incinerator in brown boxes then.

Pity the footage hadn't included pictures of the boxes being re-packed before the media were shown them.

and where that 2.5 tonne ganja ?

Dont want to be around that burn...

Burn something that can bring profit to some one???

Dont want to be around that burn...

I bet they could charge a 2000 baht entry fee and there would be people queuing up a mile long to get in and 'deep breath'. LoL.

Drug gangs can afford to loose 10% its a drop in the ocean! makes no difference. Every country the same!

Drug gangs can afford to loose 10% its a drop in the ocean! makes no difference. Every country the same!

Its not a loss, its an under cover pay off..

If they really lit it up it the smoke of the stuff will burn in the eyes of a couple of BIB. Guess the will end up kneedeep in tears.

It's all for a show, I wonder how much drugs is NOT BEING BURNED and somehow find

it's way back on to the streets I assume...

Dont want to be around that burn...

I bet they could charge a 2000 baht entry fee and there would be people queuing up a mile long to get in and 'deep breath'. LoL.

They just burn the boxes and the packages,those drugs cost lots of bahts.

One wonders of the 'actual' amount that will be burned.

How much of those drugs have been substituted with the missing rice?

.....in Thailand.....it takes time.......'to get things done'.........'properly'.........(wink, wink)....

They're gonna need a lot of foil.

I wonder how much it costs to get a job in the FDA drug burning department?

With the level of corruption in this country, one has to wonder what is really getting burned?

and where that 2.5 tonne ganja ?

That's probably already gone up in smoke, one joint at a time.

I am standing downwind, anyone wanting to join me please let me know :_)

Hope the smoke from this bonfire does not blow over Chalerm's house, he has enough issues already.

What do they do with the other 8 tons,recycle it?

"322,620 millimeters of pseudo-ephedrine.." is about 2 miles long.

That's one hell of a "trip".

Dont want to be around that burn...

that is one of us

I am standing downwind, anyone wanting to join me please let me know :_)

i will be they guy who shoves in front of you.

in sunglasses

It hope they have a better inventory control system than the rice warehouse. I hope the boxes actually have something inside.

"322,620 millimeters of pseudo-ephedrine.." is about 2 miles long.

That's one hell of a "trip".

make that about 350 yards.

presumably they meant millilitres.

hope the security gaurds dont fall asleep !!