Customs seized 28 kgs of heroin hidden in hollowed-out rubber pillows

Customs officials seized 28 kilogrammes of heroin worth about 100 million baht in street price in a shipment of para rubber pillows to be shipped to Hong Kong at Klong Toey port on Sunday (Apr 8).

Customs officials manning an X-ray scanning machine at Klong Toey port found something suspicious among the para rubber pillows being scanned and took all the pillows meant to be sent to Hong Kong for closer examination.

Cutting open the pillows, the found two bars of heroin hidden in each of 40 pillows.

Customs then booked officials of the importing company for questioning before handing them over to narcotics police for further investigation in order to find out the mastermind of the drug trafficking racket.

(Photo: กรมศุลกากร : the customs department)