THAILAND: POLICE SEIZE LARGEST HAUL OF ECSTASY TABLETS AND ARREST TWO SINGAPOEANS AND AN INDONESIAN IN BANGKOK ON DRUG TRAFFICKING CHARGES.

Record ID: 600211

  • Title: THAILAND: POLICE SEIZE LARGEST HAUL OF ECSTASY TABLETS AND ARREST TWO SINGAPOEANS AND AN INDONESIAN IN BANGKOK ON DRUG TRAFFICKING CHARGES.
  • Date: 1st November 2002
  • Summary: (W3) BANGKOK, THAILAND (NOVEMBER 1,2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV: HANDCUFFED MEN BROUGHT INTO ROOM. 0.10 2. CU: HANDCUFFS. 0.15 3. SCU: THREE ARRESTED MEN. 0.21 4. SV: MEDIA WITH THREE ARRESTED MEN. 0.27 5. VARIOUS: SEIZED DRUGS ON DISPLAY. (2 SHOTS) 0.38 6. WS: ARRESTED MEN WITH DRUGS. 0.43 7. CU: FACE OF ARRESTED MAN. 0.48 8. CU: PASSPORT. 0.52 9. SV: THAI JUSTICE MINISTER SPEAKING TO MEN. 1.02 10. CU: ECSTASY ON DISPLAY. 1.08 11. QUESTIONING DRUG TRAFFICKER. 1.30 12. CU: HANDCUFFS. 1.35 13. SV: MEDIA FILMING SEIZED DRUGS. 1.38 14. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Thai) THAI MINISTER OF JUSTICE, PURACHAI PIUMSOMBUN SAYING: "I would like to ask the global community to help us fight drugs. Please don't look at Asia as the sole producer of drugs since some of them come from Europe." 1.52 15. SV: PACKING OF DRUGS. 1.57 16. CU: SEIZED DRUGS. 2..02 17. SV: WORKER HANDLING SEIZED DRUGS. 2.08 18. SV: THAI POLICE LEADING SUSPECT TO CAR 2.13 19. SV: SECOND SUSPECT PUT INTO VEHICLE. 2.27 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 16th November 2002 12:00
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  • Location: BANGKOK,THAILAND
  • Country: Thailand
  • Reuters ID: LVA793PYA5JGQWA0O6UFZ6XY26TM
  • Story Text: Thai police have said they have seized their largest
    haul of the illegal party drug ecstasy, confiscating some
    62,000 pills and arresting two Singaporean men and an
    Indonesian on drug-trafficking charges.



    Thailand, battling a flood tide of methamphetamine or
    speed pills commonly used by Thai youngsters, says ecstasy use
    is also on the rise.

    Thai anti-narcotics officials said tip-offs from Swiss and
    British agents led to the arrest of two men, identified as
    Hasan, a 41-year-old Indonesian and Singaporean Tee Chong Lim,
    24, at a Bangkok hotel on Thursday (October 31).

    Another Singaporean, Seo Seng Nan, 43, was later arrested
    at Bangkok International airport after arriving from Hamburg
    via Zurich with a stash of pills in a travel case.

    The three men were presented to the media on Friday
    (November 1).

    If found guilty by a Thai court, all three face a maximum
    penalty of death by firing squad. Anti-narcotics officials
    said they believed the three men belonged to the same group of
    traffickers as a Singaporean man arrested in a hotel in the
    town of Hat Yai, 1,340 km (840 miles), south of Bangkok with
    20,250 ecstasy pills in August.

    Thai officials said ecstasy manufactured in Europe had
    become more popular than Asian-made ecstasy because of its
    higher quality. They said the number of cases and amount of
    pills intercepted had increased by 12-fold in the past five
    years.

    Police seized 72,182 ecstasy pills in 2000, compared to
    5,920 in 1998, police sources said.




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