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Chiang Mai police announced on Thursday that it has seized assets worth about 100 million baht and made an unspecified number of arrests in a couple of raids on Wednesday.

Immigration chief Lt-General Surachate Hakparn is continuing his counterfeit-goods crackdown in Patong and Chiang Mai, where Bt240 million-worth of assets have been seized over the past month.

Some 60,000 plastic coffee cups, tumblers and mugs bearing brand name logos have been confiscated from wholesale manufacturers and warehouses for intellectual property law violation.

NARCOTICS SUPPRESSION Bureau (NSB)-led commando teams have launched an operation to search 55 locations nationwide this week to crack down on the drug-trafficking networks of alleged drug kingpin Jirat “Ek Ouan” Pensophonwitch and a separate drug suspect Thip-apa Raksasaeng, NSB chief Pol Lt-General Sommai Kongwisaisuk said yesterday.

Police and Army officers raided a storage area containing allegedly smuggled cigarettes in Songkhla’s Sadao district and seized 791 boxes worth Bt11 million on Tuesday.

Thai authorities should release 35 Pakistani and Somali asylum seekers arrested in recent raids, a rights group said Monday, slamming arrests that swept up more than a dozen children.

The Provincial Police Region 2 launched a crime sweep operation prior to the Royal Cremation ceremonies and netted more than 200 suspects and a large stash of guns and drugs, Deputy Police Chief Pol General Chalermkiat Sriworakhan told a press conference in Chon Buri on Tuesday.

Police, troops and Interior Ministry officials joined forces to search four houses in Satun’s Khuan Ka Long district and arrested six people after drugs were found on the premises on Wednesday morning.

Eight suspects were arrested by police in four separate drug busts recently.

Some 80 officials of the Interior Ministry’s Provincial Administration Department raided two pubs in Pathum Thani’s Klong Lung district after they were found to be operating beyond the permitted hours. Following the raids, the authorities ordered the closure of DJ Zone pub and Wieng Chan pub for five years, inv

HOUSES of Pheu Thai Party politicians, including former members of Parliament, were among 14 locations in Samut Prakan targeted yesterday in coordinated raids involving more than 100 police and military officers.