Traffickers hired Chiang Mai residents to help launder Bt170 million
Traffickers hired outsiders to help launder Bt170 million
Taiwanese drug trafficking gangsters hired Chiang Mai residents, including a 17 year old student, at Bt500 Bt1,000 per head, to open over 50 bank accounts to launder some Bt170 million in drug money, police said yesterday.
Police arrested six Taiwanese and Thai drug suspects along with six kilograms of heroin in a Muang Chiang Mai apartment on August 27. A source at the Narcotics Suppression Police Region 5 said police had found Bt170 million in drug money had been circulated among the 50 bank accounts, but most account holders had no links to the gang but had been kept as witnesses. The money was sent from Taiwan to buy narcotics and to avoid police attention.
