Drug seizures up in 2011

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
Drug seizures up in 2011

The Office of the Narcotics Control Board last year netted 73 million yaba pills and seized drug suspects' assets worth Bt1.6 billion, the board's secretary-general Pol General Adul Saengsingkaew announced yesterday.

Yaba seizures rose from 45 million pills in 2010, while last year’s crystal-meth haul was 1,446 kilograms compared with 1,058kg the year before. Assets seizures rose from 1,984 cases worth Bt1.019 billion in 2010 to 4,686 cases worth Bt1.654 billion in 2011.