TAK, Dec 20 (TNA) – Anti-drug police on Thursday launched the operations to crack down on the major drug network in Tak province.
The operations have been carried out at 25 locations in five provinces while the main target of the police operations is in Tak’s Mae Sot district, where a drug kingpin, identifies as Sue Songkittikun lives and runs a company for money laundering.
The joint police and soldier operation raided the Southern Cross Group Co.,Ltd, gem-cutting company, owned by Sue and a Hong Kong businessman.
According to the police, the money, earned from selling narcotics is laundered by his company.
Sue holds Thai- Myanmar dual citizenship and has an arrest warrant, issued by the Myanmar authority in the drug case in 2016.
He had his employee, Prapat Saetuang to hold stakes in the company to prevent asset seizure by the authorities.
Sue remains at large. The police believed that he is hiding with the ethnic armed group in Myanmar.
Meanwhile, Prapat and his mother-in-law were arrested for being nominees of Sue. About 200 million baht of the asset has been seized.
According to the police’s investigation, Sue is the drug kingpin and members of his network are from Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Malaysia, Thailand and Australia.
His network procures precursors from South Africa, UAE and India and the substances are sent to Myanmar for production of crystal meth, ketamine and methamphetamine. The illegal drugs are sold to his network in Thailand and Australia. (TNA)
