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Xaysana's life term 'final'
News, Post Reporters, Published on 23/12/2020
» The Supreme Court has rejected a Lao drug kingpin's request to appeal his life sentence for smuggling more than a million ya ba pills into Thailand.
Court upholds drug baron's life sentence
News, Post Reporters, Published on 21/08/2020
» The Appeal Court has upheld a lower court's sentence of life imprisonment for Lao drug kingpin Xaysana Keopimpha for colluding to possess large quantities of methamphetamine pills in 2015 and 2016.
Court upholds life term for Lao drug lord
News, Post Reporters, Published on 20/12/2019
» The Appeal Court has upheld a sentence of life imprisonment for Lao drug kingpin Xaysana Keopimpha for smuggling 1.2 million speed pills into the country in 2016.
B40m of assets seized from drug syndicate
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 13/03/2019
» Authorities have impounded over 40 million baht in assets from a drug syndicate allegedly run by Lao national Xaysana Keopimpha, who is now serving life imprisonment for drug trafficking.
Cops net meth, B170m in raids
News, Wassayos Ngamkham & Sunthorn Pongpao, Published on 21/12/2018
» Police on Thursday raided multiple locations in five provinces believed to be linked to a major drug syndicate run by a Myanmar national, aka Mangkorn (Dragon) Jang, seizing at least 150 million baht worth of assets from the gang.
Another life term for Xaysana
News, Post Reporters, Published on 27/09/2018
» Lao drug kingpin Xaysana Keopimpha and a Thai accomplice have been sentenced to life imprisonment for smuggling one million methamphetamine pills to the South of Thailand.
'Benz Racing' sentenced to eight years
News, Post Reporters, Published on 08/09/2018
» The Criminal Court sentenced Akarakit "Benz Racing" Worarojcharoendet to eight years in prison yesterday for drug-related money laundering, and two of his associates to 24 years for trafficking and money laundering.
Cops seize huge B1.5bn meth haul
News, Published on 23/08/2018
» Police have seized more than 14 million methamphetamine pills worth 1.48 billion baht that were bound for neighbouring Malaysia and beyond, authorities said Wednesday, in one of their biggest ever drug busts.
Lao narcotics kingpin Xaysana gets life imprisonment
News, Post Reporters, Published on 21/03/2018
» The Criminal Court yesterday sentenced drug ring leader, Xaysana Keopimpha, to life in prison for smuggling 1.2 methamphetamine pills into Thailand.
Lack of unity in drug sweep
News, Editorial, Published on 28/02/2018
» The government has launched yet another series of anti-drugs sweep aimed at taming the North. They are part of the decades-old campaign to wipe out trafficking in illicit drugs. Authorities came up with reports to the public that had a very tired look and feel. A one-month "massive" suppression campaign resulted in the arrests of 63 suspects, the seizure of many kilogrammes of drugs and the unsurprising discovery of some 241 million baht of "assets" -- cash, gold, cars and motorcycles, up-scale homes, land and condominiums.