A legal altered his look to look extra engaging and dodge the authorities.
Convicted Thai drug trafficker Saharat Sawangjaeng, 25, underwent quite a few facial surgical procedures to make himself seem like ‘a handsome Korean man’ and evade police detection, native cops stated after he was apprehended at a rental in Bangkok.
Authorities added Sawangjaeng even went as far as to undertake a Korean-sounding identify, Seong Jimin, as a part of his disguise.
The hunt for the fugitive drug trafficker lasted greater than three months, by which period cops stated that ‘none of his original face was left’.
Cops managed to trace Sawangjaeng down by tracing the stream of ecstasy to sellers and consumers within the Thai capital.
In a video of his arrest, he’s heard explaining he had wished to maneuver to South Korea.
He stated within the recording: ‘I want to start a new life. I am bored of Thailand.’
He added many of the medicine he purchased got here from the Netherlands, and claimed he doesn’t know the identification of the opposite individuals who fashioned a part of his trafficking operation.
Since being detained, Sawangjaeng has been charged with illegally importing narcotics.
He has already admitted to utilizing cryptocurrency to buy MDMA over the darkish internet, police stated.
The defendant was arrested on at the very least three events previous to his latest apprehension.
On a type of events he was detained for assault, and the police recovered roughly 300 ecstasy tablets and greater than 2kg of liquid narcotics from his possession.
Local press quoted Thai Police major-general Theeradej Thammasutee describing Sawangjaeng as ‘one of the main causes of Bangkok’s MDMA epidemic’.
The head cop added: ‘He is a drug lord importing MDMA from Europe at simply 25 years outdated. We consider there are extra suspects in international nations.
‘We will continue our investigation.’
It’s not the one time Thailand’s booming amphetamine commerce has made headlines of late.
Authorities within the Tha Muang district of Kanchanaburi, central Thailand, stated they’d recovered greater than two million drugs from the scene of a head-on collision that killed 4 and injured one final Wednesday.
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