Undeclared Thai banknotes totalling Bt98 million have temporarily seized by the Anti-Money Laundering Office’s (Amlo)'s transaction committee after two Lao men were arrested last December while allegedly tried to smuggle them across the border from Nong Khai into Laos.

Police in northeastern Nong Khai are now trying to determine whether the Bt98 million in undeclared Thai banknotes halted at the Lao border on Tuesday was linked to drug trafficking or other criminal operations in Thailand.