Heroin carried by Thai air hostess traced to Myanmar

Photo – Suspect Uthai Khanaphiwat shows the police a place on the roadside in Ayutthaya on Sunday where he threw away handbags used in the heroin smuggling on Friday. Bangkok Post Police investigating heroin that a Thai Airways flight attendant was carrying to Australia have speculated that the drugs were produced in Myanmar and smuggled into northern Thailand via Laos. Major General Suanbon Thiankhong, deputy chief of the Narcotics Suppression Bureau (NSB), said on Sunday that the heroin smuggled by the 26-year-old woman, identified only as Mina, was produced by a drug gang in Myanmar. The drugs entered Thailand via the Chiang Kham district in the northern province of Phayao, which borders Laos. He said the Chiang Kham area is under close surveillance as it is seen as a transit point for illegal drugs. The drugs entered Thailand via northern Laos instead of directly from Myanmar to avoid Thailand’s strict border checks. He added that the seizure of millions of methamphetamine pills in raids in the Chiang Kham area recently confirmed this. From there, the drugs were transported through Thailand, with most of them heading abroad, said Major General Suanbon. Drug trafficker Uthai Khanaphiwat admitted that he delivered a parcel containing handbags with elephant patterns, in which the heroin was hidden, to Mina’s condominium in the Banna district on June 22. He told police that he picked up the parcel and other parcels in the Chiang Kham district on June 20. Uthai, who had been on the run, was arrested on Friday. He confessed to police that he had transported drugs in a similar manner three times before. Translated by Moe Thet from Bangkok Post’s Heroin carried by Thai air hostess traced to Myanmar. The post Heroin carried by Thai air hostess traced to Myanmar appeared first on BUR.MIZZIMA.COM.