Lao Police detained 55 million tablets of the prohibited substance of methamphetamine and one and a half tons of crystalline methamphetamine in the area of the Golden Triangle. This reports Reuters from the words of sources in the special services of Thailand.
Operation has passed in the northern province of Bocoo, on the border with Myanmar and Thailand, where the police stopped the truck, allegedly carrying beer. In the bodies of the car were boxes from under beer, loaded by drugs. Shortly before that, Laos police arrested two large amphetamine buses with a total of 16 million tablets in different regions of the country.
The United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNOD) in Southeast Asia Jeremy Douglas said it was a record seizure in the region in its history. “This is due to defects of security and management systems, as well as with events in Myanmar, who are affected by the region,” said an international official.
October 24 in Colombia detained the largest drug trafficking of the country since the time of Pablo Escobar. The head of the influential drug carrier “Clan Bay” Dyro Gulp on the nicknamed Otonel was arrested as a result of the joint special operation of the army and police special forces. It was attended by 500 employees.
The golden triangle is the conditional name of the region in Southeast Asia, which has become one of the international drug traffic police. It is located in the mountainous regions of Myanmar, Laos and Thailand. To date, the triangle ranks second in the world in the production of heroin after Afghanistan and the first – for the production of crystalline methamphetamine.