Three members of a transnational drug ring, two Myanmar nationals and a Nepanese man, have been arrested in a joint operation involving several agencies, the Office of the Narcotics Control Board announced.
Other agencies also involved in the operation, which targetted trafficking of drugs through Suvarnabhumi airport, were the Customs Department, the airport's anti-drugs police, and the Armed Forces Security Centre, the NCB statement said.
First, a Myanmar man identified only as Anil, 22, was arrested with 7.3 kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine found hidden in a false compartment in his baggage on his arrival at Suvarnabhumi airport from Yangon on June 25.
Information from him led to the arrest of a Myanmar woman identified as Binar Devi, 25, at a bus stop in front of Asiatique The River Front shopping centre in Wat Phrayakrai area, Bang Kho Laem district on Bangkok, on the same day.
Investigators learned the two Myanmar nationals had been hired to deliver the drugs by a Nepalese man who would cross the border into Thailand from Tachilek, Myanmar, and fly from Chiang Rai to Bangkok to pick up the crystal meth.
A Nepalese man, Buddhiman Tamang, 30, was subsequently arrested in front of a 7-Eleven convenience store at the mouth of Soi Phattanakan 57 in Bangkok's Prawet district on June 26.