Myanmar policeman arrested for crystal meth switch

Topic: 

Myanmar, meth, drugs, crime

Description: 

" A Myanmar policeman has been arrested after switching 64kg of seized crystal methamphetamine with salts loosely resembling the party drug known as Ice, officials said Tuesday (Jun 4). Officers stumbled across the suspect packages of confiscated Ice around a week ago as they carried out an inventory of seized narcotics at a police station ahead of an annual burning to mark an international day against drugs on Jun 26. "Sixty-four packages out of 103 were fake," Deputy Police Colonel, Myint Swe, chief of Kengtung district police force in Shan State told AFP, adding each package weighed 1kg (2.2 pounds). A kilogram of Ice is worth around 20 million kyats (US$13,000) locally, giving the pilfered product a value of around US$830,000 inside Myanmar. It fetches several times more the further it travels from source. Police-sergeant Myint Naing was arrested on Sunday, several hours drive away, and had been flown back to Kengtung for interrogation, police said..."

Source/publisher: 

"CNA" ( Singapore)

Date of Publication: 

2019-06-04

Date of entry: 

2019-11-29

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  • Individual Documents

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Countries: 

Myanmar

Language: 

English

Resource Type: 

text

Text quality: 

    • Good