Thai Examiner
Cops arrest Nigerian drug dealers supplying expats and a Thai woman carrying out cross-border missions
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Key facts
- Bangkok police smashed a Nigerian-linked drug ring that used fake online romances to turn Thai women into couriers
- Officers seized heroin and cocaine worth more than ฿25 million
- Police operation tracks Nigerian suspects and reveals fake online identities used to recruit couriers
- Thai woman lured through Facebook romance admits three cross-border drug smuggling missions from abroad
- In return, Ms Lalita received between ฿40,000 and ฿50,000 for each journey
- Drug suitcases hidden in coffee bags and snack packs moved through secret border routes into Bangkok
Summary
### Bangkok police smashed a Nigerian-linked drug ring that used fake online romances to turn Thai women into couriers. A ฿25 million heroin and cocaine haul, two Nigerian arrests and a Thai woman’s confession exposed a cross-border smuggling route.
A sophisticated transnational drug ring that allegedly used fake Facebook romances, false foreign identities and a Thai woman as an international drug courier has been smashed by Bangkok police after a major cross-border probe. The operation saw two Nigerian men and a Thai woman arrested, heroin and cocaine worth over ฿25 million seized and a hidden smuggling route exposed before the drugs were allegedly sold to foreign and expatriate communities in Bangkok.
Bangkok police have smashed a transnational drug trafficking network that allegedly used fake online romances to recruit Thai women as drug couriers. The operation ended with the arrest of two Nigerian men and a Thai woman.