August 20, 2009
BANGKOK (AFP) - Police in Thailand said Thursday they had arrested a Malaysian and a Singaporean on charges of trafficking one tonne of marijuana to a European country.
Malaysian national Phoon Ken Huat, 26, was arrested on Wednesday in a housing estate on the eastern outskirts of Bangkok along with Singaporean Danny Lim Kian Hong, 37, and a Thai man from a hill tribe.
Police found 990 bars of compressed marijuana in their rented house which they were preparing to send by air freight to the Netherlands, Thailand's deputy national police chief General Jumpol Manmai said.
He said they had confessed that the shipment of drugs, which they bought for 10,000 baht a kilo (294 dollars) from neighbouring countries, was destined for the Netherlands where it would have fetched six times the price.
The two foreign suspects face charges of possession and trafficking of drugs with a maximum penalty of 15 years' jail.
