News stories today verify that 35 drug smuggling operations into Australia have been successfully thwarted by the Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) this yr. Consequently, substantial portions of methamphetamine and heroin, weighing 973.4 kilograms and 70.7 kilograms respectively, destined for Australia, were intercepted at numerous airports and seaports.
The secretary-general of the ONCB, Wichai Chaimongkol, detailed that two particular units – the Airport Interdiction Task Force (AITF) and the Seaport Interdiction Task Force (SITF) – collaborated in these vital cross-border operations.
In mild of those operations, the ONCB director, Prin Mekhanan, was commissioned to go a staff constituted of members from ONCB, AITF, and SITF to intensify the crackdowns.
Wichai revealed that these significant operations have been a product of a joint effort by several agencies together with the Customs Department, the Narcotics Suppression Bureau, the Armed Forces Security Centre, and the ONCB.
Detailing one specific case, Wichai highlighted that drugs were discovered secreted in parcels ready for worldwide transport. On Friday, July 14, the staff, along with employees from a world transport service, unearthed two A3-sized paper boxes with “Inkjet Paper” labelled on high, which upon inspection, turned out to be containing four bags of heroin wrapped in aluminium foil with a complete weight of roughly 1.2 kilograms.
Furthermore, Wichai confirmed that these intercepted parcels have been en route to Australia. As Clear , the ONCB liaised with the Australian Federal Police (AFP) in Thailand to delve into a suspected smuggling community operation, Bangkok Post reported.
Wichai added that the evidence could be traced again to traffickers in Thailand and Australia who beforehand tried to ship drugs through airports and sea ports.
The illicit substances had been concealed in parcels registered with a global transport service, destined for Australia..