ONCB warns women against foreign men
THE Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) yesterday warned Thai women who have foreign boyfriends or husbands to beware of being tricked or forced into drug trafficking.
ONCB deputy chief Witthawan Sunthornkhajit told a seminar on lessons and recommendations to prevent Thai women from getting involved in drug trafficking that between 2012 and 2014, the agency learned that 190 Thai women had been arrested overseas for smuggling narcotics.
Countries with the most Thai women in prison are Brazil, with 35; Japan, 30; Malaysia, 16; and Cambodia, 13; with most cases related to crystal meth, cocaine and heroin.
The most popular methods of smuggling were, hiding drugs in a modified compartment of the luggage; hiding in cosmetics or shampoo bottles; or hiding in physical orifices, such as mouth or genitals, he added. He also urged Thai women to beware of foreign men, especially Africans, if they try to befriend them or offer them a job as they could be tricked or forced into drug smuggling.