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B230m assets impounded, arrests in major drug suppression operation

Police pose for pictures at a house impounded during coordinated drug raids in nine provinces last month. (Photo supplied)

Narcotics Suppression Bureau police arrested six suspects and impounded about 230 million baht worth of assets in a major drug suppression operation in nine provinces.

Pol Gen Chinapat Sarasin, deputy national police chief and director of the narcotics suppression centre, said that in the operation, which was carried out in December, police searched 40 locations in Bangkok, Nonthaburi, Pathum Thani, Chon Buri, Amnat Charoen, Khon Kaen, Surat Thani, Phuket and Trang provinces with court warrants for the arrest of nine suspected members of a drug network.

Six suspects were arrested. Four were caught Bangkok - Mr Suwat, Ms Mayuree, Mr Thanachote and Mr Non.  A fifth, Mr Prempawaris, was arrested in Pathum Thani's Lam Luk Ka district and the sixth, Mr Jatuporn, in Kanchanaburi's Muang district. Their fuill names were not released.

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