Thai authorities seize record haul of meth tablets near border with Myanmar

Thai authorities said they have seized 50 million methamphetamine tablets near the country’s border with Myanmar – a record haul of meth pills for Thailand and the second-largest in Asia.
Police said, the tablets had been in large sacks at the back of a six-wheeled truck that was intercepted by Thai police officers and soldiers on Tuesday at a security checkpoint in western Kanchanaburi province.
They added, a man and a woman who were in the truck have been arrested.
In terms of Asia meth drug busts, the seizure was second only to one of more than 55 million meth tablets in Laos near the Golden Triangle region, according to Jeremy Douglas, Southeast Asia regional representative for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
Asian crime syndicates work with ethnic armed militias to smuggle methamphetamine produced in Myanmar’s northern Shan state southwards, Douglas said, adding that distribution networks reached as far as Japan and New Zealand.