Thread: Tanzanian man arrested at Suvarnabhumi airport for allegedly smuggling 53 cocaine pac

Suvarnabhumi Airport police announced two major drug busts in the areas of two international airports in Thailand on Tuesday, May 10th.


First, Police Lieutenant General Sarayut Sa-nguanphokhai, commissioner of the Narcotics Suppression Bureau (NSB), reported that relevant officials confiscated 236 grams of crystal meth hidden in bottles of hair conditioner that were packed and addressed to a place in New Zealand.


The package was discovered at the parcel deposit point in the Don Mueang distribution center of an international shipping company. All of the confiscated drugs were transferred to the Royal Thai Police for further investigation.

In the second drug arrest, a Tanzanian national, 45, was captured while arriving in Thailand via Ethiopian Airlines. The airport police and customs requested a body search as he was acting suspiciously when walking out of the gate, according to the police.

A body scanner revealed what the authorities believed to be packages of illegal drugs in his abdomen. A total of 53 cocaine cubes, weighing 865 grams, were found after excretion. The man, who was later identified by authorities by his first name of Habib, was immediately taken to the Suvarnabhumi Airport Police Station for legal proceedings.

Deputy National Police Chief Roy Ingkapairote, then ordered relevant authorities to tighten their inspections in order to prevent drug smuggling through international air transport.

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Is that a sneaky little left index point I see going on.

Issan sausage ?

Originally Posted by baldrick

Issan sausage ?

He's had less than Tommy.

^ Bit not as much as Ms Mbongo

Originally Posted by Reg Dingle

Ms Mbongo

Reminds me of childhood memories, where everything was as fresh as the bright blue sky
Now and then when I see her face, she takes me away to that special place
And if I'd stare too long, I'd probably break down and cry

Originally Posted by Edmond

Is that a sneaky little left index point I see going on.

Nah that's Tanzanian signing for "see you in one year mum", the Thai's won't want him banged up for 10 years.

Bettyboo's pillow also being in the picture is disturbingly suspect.

He'd be an all you can eat chipolata buffets worst nightmare.

It’s kind of clear why you don’t crack many jokes.

^It's kind of clear why you are a joke.

Originally Posted by malmomike77

Nah that's Tanzanian signing for "see you in one year mum", the Thai's won't want him banged up for 10 years.

He's going to get a lot more than ten years.

Of course he is.

And it doesn't look like he even has the (possible) luxury of a prisoner transfer.

Thailand has 38 bilateral prisoner transfer treaties in force in France, Spain, Canada, the United States, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Finland, Germany, Portugal, Austria, Israel, Poland, Denmark, Hong Kong, Switzerland, Norway, the Philippines, Estonia, Czech, Australia, Nigeria, Mali, the Netherlands, Laos, Swaziland, Cambodia, Pakistan, Vietnam, Belgium, Japan, Iran, Republic of Korea, China, India, Maldives, Peru and Sri Lanka.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

He's going to get a lot more than ten years.

getting and serving are two different things

Originally Posted by malmomike77

getting and serving are two different things

So if you have evidence that African drug smugglers get treated leniently, please feel free to post it.

Originally Posted by Headworx

FWIW an Australian guy I've known for some 25 years (not going to call him a friend as we were never really friends) recently got 50 years in Thailand for being part of a group that got pinged with over 100gr of crystal meth. He's telling everyone he'll do 8 to 9 years here then be transferred to an Australian prison where he'll do another 1.5 to 3 years before being free again. He's almost 60 years old.

Prisoner agreements vary, e.g. how much you serve before being eligible, but the one key feature is that you still need a Royal Pardon to get released.

Sandra Gregory, who was caught smuggling <100g of Heroin, was ultimately sentenced to 25 years. She did four in Bangkok, and was then transferred to the UK (a maximum security prison) to see out her sentence (you are still bound by your foreign sentence).

She said she was worse off there because at least in Thailand she could spend lots of time outside (!)

After three years she received a royal pardon. Apparently a big factor in that was that she spent her time in Thailand learning and teaching her fellow inmates and was considered a model prisoner.

The 25 years is significant because she also got the death penalty, also was reduced to life imprisonment then reduced to 25 years on appeal, so there is hope for Ms. Oosthuizen.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Sandra Gregory, who was caught smuggling <100g of Heroin, was ultimately sentenced to 25 years. She did four in Bangkok, and was then transferred to the UK (a maximum security prison) to see out her sentence (you are still bound by your foreign sentence).

One big gripe for the soapdodgers was (maybe still is) that if transferred to the UK, their Thai prison sentence still stands, compared to almost every other civilised nation where they are resentenced for the crime under their home country's sentencing structure, with time served for the time spent in Thai prisons. With Thai sentences often being on par with an NBA scoreline, the Brits used to (still do, if it hasn't changed) do 8-12 years in Thailand which is the normal amount of time it takes to get a royal pardon.

Originally Posted by Edmond

compared to almost every other civilised nation where they are resentenced for the crime under their home country's sentencing structure, with time served for the time spent in Thai prisons.

Which countries do that then?

Also, the rules just changed.

New rule on royal pardon put in place

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Which countries do that then?

Originally Posted by Edmond

civilised nations

New Zealand and Australia, obviously.

British Domestic law provides that a transferring ‘life’ sentence must have a ‘tariff’ attached on return, whereas those on a determinate sentence cannot have their sentences re-examined and must serve the full sentence handed down by the Thai courts.


A simple solution to this problem without any need for altering the treaty or introducing new legislation, I suggested to Ms. Thompson, would be to follow the Australian and New Zealand examples whereby their governments offer full support as a matter of policy to their own citizens imprisoned in Thailand, once an individual had served an equivalent sentence term to what they would have received if they had been convicted of a similar offence in their home country.

British Transfer Treaty with Thailand ‘deeply flawed’ say British prisoners in Bang Kwang – insidetime & insideinformation

who gives a fuck how long they serve or where they serve it.
those stupid enough to get involved with drugs in thailand deserve all they get.

Originally Posted by taxexile

who gives a fuck how long they serve or where they serve it.

Upstanding UK tax payers should.



"taxexile"

Ohh.