"Traffickers"

Police officers seized 470,000 drugs worth over THB14 million on a Kukrit roadside in Songkhla’s Hat Yai district on Wednesday night.

Twenty-three teenage Rohingya girls were rescued after being brought from refugee camps to the capital Dhaka to be sent to Malaysia by air, Bangladesh police said Sunday.

Police on Thursday arrested two men for allegedly impersonating narcotics officers before torturing and killing a Lisu hill-tribe man in Chiang Mai last month.

National police deputy commissioner Pol General Chalermkiat Srivorakan on Wednesday declared a successful drug bust after three male suspects were arrested on August 18 in Ayutthaya and 14.8 million methamphetamine pills worth Bt1.5 billion were seized from a trailer truck’s container.

The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) is preparing to recommend criminal proceedings against three commissioned police officers for their alleged distortion of an investigation report and intention to help human traffickers.

The Metropolitan Police Bureau’s operation to crackdown on human traffickers has so far seen eight human-trafficking suspects and 11 people accused of harbouring street beggars arrested, city police deputy chief Pol Maj-General Sompong Chingduang told a press conference on Monday.

SINGAPORE - Traffickers are increasingly swallowing condoms filled with liquid cocaine to cheat traditional detection methods, Interpol said Tuesday as it pointed to West African and Asian gangs driving the Asia-Pacific narcotics trade.

Thailand yesterday handed over a Myanmar national to authorities in his home country over charges of allegedly being involved in human trafficking.