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Singaporean held for drugs in Thailand

BANGKOK: Police in Thailand said on 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.

The police found 990 bars of compressed marijuana in their rented house which they were preparing to send by air freight to the Netherlands, said Thailand's deputy national police chief, General Jumpol Manmai.

He said they had confessed that the shipment of drugs, which they had bought for 10,000 baht a kilo (US$294) 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 in jail.

- AFP/yt

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