Nearly 4 kg of heroin seized in Myanmar's northwestern state

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"Myanmar authorities seized 3.96 kilograms of heroin in Sagaing Region, according to a release from the Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control (CCDAC) on Wednesday. Acting on a tip-off, a joint police force stopped and searched a motorcycle in Tamu township on Monday. Soap boxes filled with heroin worth over 237 million kyats (169,714 U.S. dollars) were confiscated from the motorcycle. The township police filed a case against the suspect who ran away from the scene under the country's Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law, the release said. According to a latest release issued by the President's Office on Monday, a total of 1,083 drug-related cases were registered across Myanmar while 1,666 suspects were charged in connection with the cases as of May 2 this year, since the formation of the Drug Activity Special Complaint Department on June 26, 2018..."

Creator/author: 

huaxia

Source/publisher: 

"Xinhua" (China)

Date of Publication: 

2020-05-06

Date of entry: 

2020-05-06

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  • Individual Documents

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Countries: 

Myanmar

Language: 

English

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text

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