Cops arrest Thai drug vendor who went beneath knife to look Korean

A Thai drug vendor, who underwent plastic surgical procedures to seem like a Korean man, has been arrested by Bangkok Police.

Bangkok,UPDATED: Mar 1, 2023 11:10 IST

Drug vendor Saharat Sawangjaeng adopted the alias Seong Jimin to make his case sturdy. (Photo: Twitter)

By India Today World Desk: Bangkok Police have arrested a Thai drug vendor, who underwent a number of facial plastic surgical procedures to seem like ‘a good-looking Korean man’ and evade the regulation.

Drug vendor Saharat Sawangjaeng, who adopted the alias Seong Jimin, was nabbed final week at a condominium in Bangkok.

Police, who had been in search of the 25-year-old for 3 months, mentioned, “None of his original face was left.”

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By tracing the distribution of MDMA to different patrons and sellers in Bangkok, police have been lastly in a position to monitor down Saharat.

Witnesses described him as a “handsome Korean man”. In a video of his arrest, Saharat expressed a want to start out a brand new life in South Korea, stating that he was uninterested in Thailand.

He has been charged with the unlawful import of narcotics after admitting to ordering MDMA – also referred to as ecstasy – over the darkish internet utilizing cryptocurrencies, in keeping with police experiences.

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Saharat has been beforehand arrested at the very least 3 times, together with detention for assault the place police discovered 290 ecstasy drugs and 2kg of narcotics in liquid type in his possession. Despite present process intensive surgical procedures to keep away from detection, he managed to flee detention. Thai Police Major-General Theeradej Thammasutee described him as one of many predominant causes of Bangkok’s MDMA epidemic and a drug lord importing MDMA from Europe at simply 25 years previous.

Thammasutee added that they consider there are extra suspects in international international locations and that the investigation will proceed. Saharat mentioned within the video that he principally imported medication from the Netherlands however didn’t know the identification of the folks he handled as a part of the operation.

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Mar 1, 2023