Methamphetamine comes in two forms in Southeast Asia. I’m taking it… I’m going to seize the day and go for it,” Douglas said. “Someone will assume a role within Sam Gor, or other big players are going to come in and say, that opportunity is too big for me to pass up. The UNODC estimates that Sam Gor may control as much as 40% to 70% of the methamphetamine market, sending the drug out in tea packets - a branding device indicating high quality. The arrests “might temporarily disrupt the clientele they were working with and the networks they work with, but the reality is that the demand has been built,” Jeremy Douglas, regional representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime told VOA news February 8, saying seizures have been surging over the last few years, reflecting the vast supply. Sao were not sent back to Prey Sar.Myanmar Opium Production Drops as Meth Surges, UN Says “We received the three Cambodian men at 5:30 p.m.,” he said, declining to explain why Mr. Yoeun Thanrath, chief of administration at PJ Prison, a minimum-security facility, said he took custody of the Cambodian suspects yesterday evening. Okeke said he knew nothing about the backpacks or his wife’s relationship with Sunny.Ī verdict in the case was due on Thursday, but the presiding judge delayed the hearing because he was busy grading exams for prospective judges, according to deputy prosecutor Soeur Vanny. While his wife, Ho Thi Nhu Thuy, 26, admitted to mailing the backpacks overseas at the request of a friend named Sunny, but said she did not know they contained drugs.
METH SYNDICATE TRIAL
Okeke, 34, stood trial earlier this month alongside his Vietnamese wife, accused of attempting to smuggle 1.5 kg of heroin to Australia in the straps and lining of backpacks. “We will investigate and find more people involved,” he said at the time. Thoura, by telephone, to distribute the meth to buyers in the capital. On Thursday, National Military Police spokesman Eng Hy said the five prisoners had been under investigation for a month, and that they had instructed Mr. “My client was sent to Prey Sar, but I don’t know about the other suspects.” “All of them were charged with drug trafficking,” he said. Leang, said Investigating Judge Khy Chhai charged all six suspects yesterday afternoon. Sopheap’s deputy, Tieng Karona, identified the inmates at the center of the case as Cambodians Sin Ratha and Suon Sao, Vietnamese national Yaing Leang and Nigerians Samuel Amechi Okeke and “Baja,” explaining that he knew the last man only by his nickname. “The drug total was about 13 kg of crystal methamphetamine and methamphetamine pills.” “This is the biggest case of the year,” said Pann Sopheap, chief of the municipal military police’s anti-drug bureau. Military police escort drug-trafficking suspect ‘Baja’ out of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday.
The suspected dealer, Dy Thoura, 32, who was arrested by military police near the base of the Chroy Changva bridges on Monday, was also charged on Friday. Five inmates believed to be operating a major drug distribution ring from behind the walls of Phnom Penh’s maximum-security Prey Sar prison were hit with fresh trafficking charges at the municipal court on Friday, just days after one of their alleged dealers was caught with 13 kg of methamphetamine, officials said.
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