Thailand's Narcotics Control Board asks Myanmar to arrest key drug suspects

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Thailand's Narcotics Control Board asks Myanmar to arrest key drug suspects
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BANGKOK, Dec 29 -- The Thai government Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) has asked Myanmar to arrest ten prime drug suspects on behalf of Thailand.

ONCB Secretary-General Permpong Chaovalit said he sent the list of ten suspects, including Chaiwat Pornsakulpaisarn, also known as Yishay, to the Myanmar authorities.

He said they played important roles in smuggling narcotics into Thailand and that the Thai authorities had seized more than Bt100 million worth of their assets.

For their narcotics production, they received precursor drugs used in industrial-scale manufacturing from traffickers in Thailand including those active in border areas, Mr Permpong said.

Apart from the 10 drug kingpins believed to be in Myanmar, the narcotics agency is seeking 14 other key traffickers in Thailand, some of whom them are are thought to be hiding in border areas.

They allegedly deliver illicit drugs in one region, transfer funds in another region and hide with ethnic armed forces in Myanmar when being closely followed, Mr Permpong said. (MCOT online news)


-- TNA 2014-12-29

[Commerce]

On behalf of Myanmar, the Mynamars should ask for 2m Baht back, and the release of two Myanmars before it is considered cooperating.

[FireMedic]

That's funny...Thailand asking someone to do their job. Maybe Thailand should fix it's own problems before telling someone else how to fix theirs.

[drand11]

These guys are most likely in the pockets of Myanmar police & DA. Dont see them being handed over anytime soon. Who do you think owns all that high dollar land & condos in Yangon? We shall see.

[FangFerang]

Cosmetic reforms ad nauseum. That list is very selective. No mention of asking the Myanmar government to crack down on all Golden Triangle smuggling (which is absolutely not going to happen), nor a request of providing evidence of all Thai operatives, and absolutely no mention of getting the Laos or Cambodian governments involved... I think it is an echo of the local purge that recently "shocked" the Thai community. They have a very specific list. Who is not on the list speaks an entire set of encyclopedia volumes.

The international community knows all about it.

It's okay really. It's the Thai right to sovereignty.

Please stop asking us to believe in Tinker Bell.

[paz]

Cosmetic reforms ad nauseum. That list is very selective. No mention of asking the Myanmar government to crack down on all Golden Triangle smuggling (which is absolutely not going to happen).

I agree with your intentions but asking Mynamar to do something about the Shan state would just unreasonable and ridicolous. Shan state is not Myanmar, not even the national currency is accepted there.

[Strangebrew]

This sounds like the kettle calling the pot black. And just how many of the kingpins here in Thailand has The RTP arrested say in the past 20 years? Ah NONE.

[Tomtomtom69]

Cosmetic reforms ad nauseum. That list is very selective. No mention of asking the Myanmar government to crack down on all Golden Triangle smuggling (which is absolutely not going to happen).

I agree with your intentions but asking Mynamar to do something about the Shan state would just unreasonable and ridicolous. Shan state is not Myanmar, not even the national currency is accepted there.

Depends which part of the Shan state you've been to. All parts of the Shan that I've been to accepted my Kyat, including Tachilek (although most people were wanting Baht, but how then does that work when the 2 local ATMs only dispense Kyat?), Muse, Lashio, Pyin Oo Lwin etc.

[SinCityGr8One]

Cosmetic reforms ad nauseum. That list is very selective. No mention of asking the Myanmar government to crack down on all Golden Triangle smuggling (which is absolutely not going to happen).

I agree with your intentions but asking Mynamar to do something about the Shan state would just unreasonable and ridicolous. Shan state is not Myanmar, not even the national currency is accepted there.

I flew from Yangon to HeHo Airport in Taunggyi, Shan State recently and my Kyats were accepted everywhere I went.

[poweratradio]

That's funny...Thailand asking someone to do their job. Maybe Thailand should fix it's own problems before telling someone else how to fix theirs.

Oh my friends are you not aware that Thailand is full of narcotics control agents from countries all over the world. America=DEA Canada=RCMP etc etc etc.

[poweratradio]

Cosmetic reforms ad nauseum. That list is very selective. No mention of asking the Myanmar government to crack down on all Golden Triangle smuggling (which is absolutely not going to happen).

I agree with your intentions but asking Mynamar to do something about the Shan state would just unreasonable and ridicolous. Shan state is not Myanmar, not even the national currency is accepted there.

The world Narco police agents just buy as much of the drug as they can and just write it off as the cost of eradication. Then they give themselves a plaque.