KANCHANABURI: Police have arrested a man with gold bars worth about 28 million baht that were to be smuggled across the border into Myanmar.
The 37-year-old, identified only as Chart, was arrested in tambon Nong Lu of Sangkhlaburi district on Tuesday.
Police searched the man's Toyota pickup and found a bag containing 18 gold bars. He told police a woman named Mayo who owned a gold shop across the border in Phaya Tong Su hired him to buy gold in Bangkok's Chinatown. He was to hand the gold to someone near the Three Pagodas Pass.
