Iranian Arrested at Airport with over Bt9 Million in Ya-Ice

Published : October 05, 2010 :: 11:10:31 [ 3,420 views ]

An Iranian man has been arrested on Monday at Thailand’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport with over 2.5kg of crystal methamphetamine (Ya-Ice), according to customs officers.

Bangkok, the 4^th of October 2010: Travelling from the United Arab Emirates city of Dubai, the man had attempted to pass through customs with 2.65kg of the illegal narcotic known as Ya-Ice concealed in his luggage.

Thai Customs officers arrested the man, Mr. Gholamhassan Bakhshandehpalangsaraei [41], after he was noticed acting suspicious while transiting through Thailand’s major international airport.

Undergoing random baggage inspections, customs found the illegal narcotics crudely concealed in plastic bags wrapped in cardboard at the base of his luggage. The drugs are estimated to be worth approximately Bt9 million.

Mr Bakhshandehpalangsaraei will now be charged with smuggling of a class-1 restricted narcotics, and possession with intent to sell a class-1 restricted narcotic. He has since been transferred to the Thai Narcotics Suppression Bureau for further investigations.

Reportedly, Thai Customs had been following an anonymous tip-off that a substantial quantity of narcotics was to be trafficked into the country on Monday, causing officials to be on ‘high-alert’.

Thai Customs have seized a reported Bt450 million (130kg) in Ya-Ice at the Suvarnabhumi Airport since October of 2009. Equating to almost 70 separate case of which just over 50 have involved Iranian nationals or flights from the capital of Tehran.

Comments

tony

said :

who is gurditt singh , you must be the stupid indian that talking shit about iranian ,,,,

Email : t11991145@yahoo.com Date : 2010-10-19 16:21:04

gerp

said :

Thailand police,immigration,politicians should wakeup.Do you know 80% of drugs that enters thailand through airport,boarders are brought in by middle East countries.They smuggle this drugs into thaialnd and distribute them to locals to sell in the streets,clubs.Thais worship money too much.

Email : hiattu1414@yahoo.com Date : 2010-10-07 01:15:55

Gurditt Singh

said :

these iranian peoples coming here with their ice and drugs and ugly cod face women it is a pity for simple pattaya peoples and tourists to be squashed into drug taking by lethal addiction and death by injections which leads to the madness of the brain cells and eventually downfall of the soul and then much gnashing of teeth whilst getting haircut and shopping with the family unit which has been dying out in the poor village by packets of druggy items by men on motorcycle equipment and not a care in the world of krishna

Email : singhgp@hotmail.co.in Date : 2010-10-06 12:26:11

said :

Stone him to death.

Email : owsleyagin@yahoo.com Date : 2010-10-06 12:05:32

rhysie

said :

the Thai customs should show a little more to tolerance with these Iranian's , they bring a little crystal meth for personal use on holiday and the customs are jumping all over them,ffs 2.65kgs of ice doesn't stretch to far on a three week holiday,he should be let off with a police caution.

Email : rhysie_babe@hotmail.com Date : 2010-10-05 15:41:32

teo

said :

the TAT spent millions of baht on promoting tourism from the middle east and India,witch is 22%up on last year,they got plane loads of low budget rag heads from mumbai and a shit load of ATM bandits and drug traffickers from Iran,oh boy did they get it wrong?i am sure by now the TAT is sorry they called the euros,yanks and Aussies a bunch of sex tourists.yes, but they where big money spending sex tourists,

Email : wee_teo12@hotmail.com Date : 2010-10-05 15:15:52

IQneg

said :

Good point Blade. They only caught him cos he was acting suspiciously, they said. Not true! He wasn't acting suspiciously at all - he was loitering with intent to hear what kind of a mess the tannoy girl was going to make of this one!

Email : IQneg@BraneDed.com Date : 2010-10-05 14:30:53

micky

said :

How he come trough the secruity check in Dubai?
Believe me...the Thai-Customs&Police at the Airport is one of the best in the world!
You don't see them,but they WATCH you...

Email : mickymg63@yahoo.de Date : 2010-10-05 13:55:02

DR. K

said :

PDN should do a follow-up of what actually happens to 450 million baht in evidence. Thai Customs have seized a reported Bt450 million (130kg) in Ya-Ice at the Suvarnabhumi Airport since October of 2009.

Who witnesses the destruction of this profitable, illegal and dangerous drug when the cases are closed?
Too hot to handle? Just wondering, Thats all.

Email : imat@hotmail.com Date : 2010-10-05 13:26:39

mark

said :

whats the over/under on days it takes for the police to have these drugs back on the street?? 2??

Email : markreyn59@hotmail.com Date : 2010-10-05 12:24:21

Bill

said :

Thailand is trying to attract more Iranian, Indian and Chinese tourists. Why not make it legal for them to import drugs into Thailand? If the Iranians are busy doing drug deals maybe they will forget to support world terrorism.

Email : GOFAST@PRODIGY.NET Date : 2010-10-05 11:48:37

Blade

said :

Gholamhassan Bakhshandehpalangsaraei

He should also be charged with pre-meditated excessive last-namedness in the first degree. I wasted four minutes of my life trying to figure out how to say it.

That's why he got caught. The customs guy kept getting stuck at, "Bak, bak, bak, bak." and Mr. WTF kept coming back for another inspection.

Email : blade@hotmail.com Date : 2010-10-05 11:22:51

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