Thai women were put in pre-trial detention on Friday for allegedly trafficking 27.3kg of drugs. Police
The Siem Reap provincial court placed two Thai women in pre-trial detention on Friday for allegedly trafficking 27.3kg of drugs, while in a separate case, four men including a Thai national, who had been arrested last Monday were also charged with trafficking 100kg of drugs in Kampong Thom province.
Oum Amara, the Siem Reap provincial deputy police chief in charge of drug enforcement, said on Sunday that 37-year-old Savaengphol Suphaporn and Prachamon Wipa, 30, were arrested by Siem Reap immigration police, anti-drug police and customs officials on Thursday after 27kg of crystal methamphetamine, known as ice, was found in two suitcases belonging to them.
“The drugs were wrapped in aluminium foil and plastic with the packages weighing 28.3kg. But after cutting off the aluminium foil and plastic, the drugs themselves weighed a kilogramme less,” he said.
The two women confessed that they had bought drugs in Phnom Penh, Amara said, and were attempting to traffic them to the Philippines through Siem Reap International Airport on a Cebu Pacific flight to Manila.
“The women were placed in pre-trial detention in accordance with the provincial court order on Friday after they were charged with trafficking drugs,” he said, adding that the police were continuing to investigate the case and track down their accomplices.
Separately, the Kampong Thom provincial court on Friday charged Sak Saesong, a 32-year-old male Thai national, and his three Cambodian accomplices – Kong Vannak, 40, Sok Bun Serechhay, 42, and Ly Toek, 53 – with trafficking drugs with aggravating circumstances.
Provincial prosecutor Ith Sothea said the provincial court ordered the men to be placed in pre-trial detention the same day.
The National Authority for Combating Drugs collaborated with Kampong Thom provincial police to arrest the men last Monday and seized 40kg of crystal methamphetamine at a restaurant in Samnak village, in Santuk district’s Kakoh commune.
After questioning the suspects, Kampong Thom provincial police on Wednesday and Thursday searched a vacant house in Kampong Svay district and seized a further 60kg of ice.
Va Chankosal, the Kampong Thom provincial deputy police chief in charge of drug enforcement, told The Post on Thursday that the house, in Sankoa commune’s Sankoa village, belonged to a friend of one of the suspects and had been left vacant for months because he had moved to work at a Phnom Penh factory.
Prosecutor Sothea said all 100kg of drugs had been sent to the Anti-Drug Department authorities in Phnom Penh.
