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Ganja convicts set for release
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 04/06/2022
» More than 4,000 inmates charged or convicted in connection with cannabis-related offences will be released from jail when the regulation removing cannabis and hemp from the list of narcotics takes effect on June 9, according to the Corrections Department.
B1.3bn in alleged drug network assets impounded
King-oua Laohong, Published on 31/03/2022
» Assets worth about 1.38 billion baht were impounded for examination during police searches of three houses of suspected members of a drug network in Chiang Rai province on Wednesday.
Illegal SIM cards 'integral' to scams
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 01/03/2022
» Illegally used mobile phone SIM cards and proxy bank accounts are vital jigsaw pieces in the increasingly complex businesses that are online fraud and gambling, police said.
Drug assets worth almost B60m seized in Isan
King-oua Laohong, Published on 22/09/2021
» Drug suppression units on Wednesday seized assets worth about 59 million baht believed to have been acquired through the drugs trade, an official said.
Kratom inmates to walk free
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 17/08/2021
» The Ministry of Justice is pledging to free and dismiss drug charges against 12,000 inmates convicted for kratom possession before the plant is formally removed from the list of banned narcotics on Aug 24.
Minister: Thailand transit area for illicit drugs
King-oua Laohong, Published on 07/06/2021
» Thailand has been used by drug traders as a hub and transit area for the transport of drugs, particularly crystal methamphetamine or ice and heroin, to various countries, Justice Minister Somsak Thepsutin said on Monday.
Drug money models go under hammer
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 07/02/2021
» A life-size figure model of popular Japanese fictional character Monkey D Luffy, seized from a young couple of drug suspects in the South, was yesterday auctioned for 110,000 baht.
Somsak clears up drug haze
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 19/11/2020
» Recreational use of cocaine, morphine and opium is still illegal, despite the easing of some restrictions, Justice Minister Somsak Thepsutin warned yesterday.
Party's over but it doesn't end in jail
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 25/05/2020
» A rapid increase of arrests in the month after the government declared a state of emergency in late March to fight the Covid-19 outbreak threatened to overwhelm the already overcrowded prison population.
Heroin production on the rise in Golden Triangle
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 04/04/2020
» An increasing amount of heroin produced in the Golden Triangle -- the world's largest opium-producing area -- has been found circulating in Thailand.