Thai cabin crew heroin case expands

Police question a driver who delivered a package of heroin to flight attendant Meena on June 22. He said he was hired by a “foreign man” to do so. The man previously served a 20-year sentence for smuggling 10,000 methamphetamine pills from Chiang Rai to Bangkok, investigators said. (Police photo)

Thailand is preparing to elevate a cross-border heroin trafficking investigation involving a Thai cabin crew member detained in Australia to special case status, as a wider syndicate and overseas recipient network come into focus.

Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) Secretary-General Pol Maj Suriya Singhakamol confirmed that the case involving Ms Meena, a 26-year-old flight attendant arrested in Melbourne on June 25 with nearly 1kg of heroin, is being proposed for transfer to the Department of Special Investigation (DSI) for handling as a special investigation.