Thailand targets narco millions hidden in gold, steel and crypto | Malay Mail

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BANGKOK, June 26 — The downfall of a meth syndicate laundering tens of millions of dollars of drug money through Thai gold shops, oil and construction firms has cast rare light on the staggering scale of Asia's narco profits — and the ruses used to hide them. Thailand is South-east Asia's meth...

Thai Food and Drug Administration employees put methamphetamines in a trolley to be incinerated at the Bang Pa-In industrial estate in Ayutthaya June 26, 2020. — AFP pic

Authorities say they are finally ready to change the game by going after drug money sloshing through Thai banks, construction businesses and cryptocurrency accounts. The main group was allegedly controlled by Daoreung Somseang, a Thai woman already in custody in a Bangkok prison on trafficking offences.

“This one is not even a super-syndicate... it's mid-sized but is still moving a massive volume of money.”

 

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