American and Finnish Nationals Amongst Several Foreigners Arrested in Huge Sihanoukville MDMA Drug Bust

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And the Czech girl is known as Lenka Vlková on Facebook.

I'm glad people still like getting tattoos. Makes it sooo easy to identify them when they decide to be criminals.

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stramash wrote:
Khartoum wrote:
stramash wrote:Big operation but more likely making crystal meth tablets or a related RC. Not MDMA by what is listed nor is MDMA an amphetamine
methylenedioxy-methamphetamine (MDMA)


I love when people try - and fail - to be a smart-arse ...
Calm down hairy legs.

I have always considered MDMA to be a type of amphetamine. That it is related to amphetamine should exclude me from trying to be a 'smart-arse', however, I do apologise for ruffling your 'professional' feathers.
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The arrest of Finnish national has not been on the local news, but instead it's been spreading on social media.



Some funny details about her: On her Facebook post(s), she keeps saying how much she hates her own country and the she wants whole Finland to be destroyed. She also says she is never coming back again and well I suppose for the next 20 years or so that will be the case. Better not ask any help from the embassy then. This bitch can rot in hell.
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Foreigners on Drug Charges
Tuesday, 27 December 2016

Police arrested five foreign nationals in Preah Sihanouk province on Sunday for allegedly trafficking and producing the drug ecstasy.

Provincial police chief Major General Chuon Narin said police raided two houses in Sihanoukville and arrested the foreigners, which included three women.
The first raid in Bey commune netted two of the female suspects – Czech Lenya Vlkoval, 26, and Finn Hannah Sirkia, 28 – as well as Ukrainian Melnyk Volodymyr, 27.

Maj. Gen. Narin said that a drug-making machine, more than 400 pills, various colored powders believed to be drugs and microcrystalline cellulose were seized in the raid.

He added that two other foreigners – American Mikhail Grafma, 52, and the third female suspect, Russian Elmira Mukhametianova, 30 – were arrested in Pram commune.
“Mr. Mikhail, the ringleader, said the two houses belong to Mikhail Grafma,” Maj. Gen. Narin said.

He added that a drug scale, three large and three small packages of white powder, 26 tubes of a drug named Trauma and other medicine were seized in the second raid.

Maj. Gen. Narin added that the provincial police commissariat invited officials from the Interior Ministry’s anti-drug department to test the powder and pills.

“As a result, they are really drugs. It’s a type of MDMA,” he said. MDMA is a popular synthetic drug that alters mood and perception and is more commonly known as ecstasy.

Lieutenant General Mak Chito, the deputy director-general of the General Commissariat of National Police, said that about half a kilogram of MDMA was seized by police.

He added that the suspects were being questioned and would be sent to the provincial court.

“We asked them [the suspects] where the drugs and machine were from. They answered from this or that place and some from China,” he said.

“This is the kind of drug for shaking your head. Normally, they sell it at entertainment clubs.”
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General Mackevili wrote:There is a 52 year old Mikhail Grafman from Forest Hills, New York who's date of birth (at least the year and month), name, age and nationality match the American Mikhail Grafman arrested in Cambodia for drugs.

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General Sir,

Please do not do one of your search's and post results on me. there's nothing to see there....really!

thanks for understanding. :thumb:

cheers

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A taste of the bait is worth the pain of the hook.....
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This might be most interesting video of this MDMA drug bust yet. It shows Mikhail Grafman being interrogated by Cambodian police, where he admits he was the one who 'made' the drugs, but it's to help during workouts, and that he's just experimenting. He also asks to speak to a lawyer and the police tell him he can't have a lawyer for 24 hours:



Here is a full transcript of the interrogation caught on video:

It sounds like the main officer is on the phone with someone else who is telling him questions to ask in English, and the officer tells the person on the phone Mikhail's answers in Khmer.

Mikhail Grafman: ...I'm a doctor of psychologist, and I want to create biological additives, which helps workouts, and muscle mass, gain more muscle mass, gives more energy, etc etc... That's why I ordered ingredients from China.

Cambodian Police: You take it from China?

Mikhail Grafman: From China. And...

Cambodian Police:You do this drug, you make this, you create this drug, right?

Mikhail Grafman: Yeah, and see what effects it has. So, I'm experimenting for myself.

Cambodian Police: (Khmer spoken for a few seconds and one of the police officers laugh.)

Mikhail Grafman: Ah, gentlemen, when can I have a lawyer, advocate?

Cambodian Police: (Police all jump in the same time saying, "sir...")

Mikhail Grafman: Because I would rather speak in front of, with my lawyer first. I'm an American citizen and, um...yep. I would rather contact my lawyer first, and then I would be...

Cambodian Police: After 24 hours you can contact a lawyer. (A lot of Khmer spoken for a few seconds.) For all of this you create by this machine? Then make with this, right?

Mikhail Grafman: Yes.

Cambodian Police: (More Khmer spoken.) Who is create this medicine?

Mikhail Grafman: Huh?

Cambodian Police: Who create this medicine?

Mikhail Grafman: I did.

Cambodian Police: (Khmer spoken.) Before you come here to make this, what is your work in your country?

Mikhail Grafman: I am, i was, a doctor; psychologist.

Cambodian Police: (Khmer spoken.) How long have you been here?

Mikhail Grafman: Um, since April.

Cambodian Police: You start to make with this, when you start to make?

Mikhail Grafman: Only... 3 months ago.

(Video ends.)
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That excuse might be believable I f he'd been hunched over a couple Bunsen burners with his mad chemist face on scrolling through obscure procedures from Erowid.org. Not so much when you got a thousand or so pills and supplies to make thousands more. He's an even dumber ass for admitting to something he didn't even do, ie. Making the drugs. He's just packaging in different formats and distributing so to speak.
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thats you get for letting east eurotrash in your country, they are scammy rat people.
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2000rielpineapples wrote:thats you get for letting east eurotrash in your country, they are scammy rat people.
He's American, try to keep up!
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Raybull wrote:That excuse might be believable I f he'd been hunched over a couple Bunsen burners with his mad chemist face on scrolling through obscure procedures from Erowid.org. Not so much when you got a thousand or so pills and supplies to make thousands more.
Haha, that dude is high as balls!

I like how he tells them all that damning info, and then sheepishly says, "um, I'd rather speak to my lawyer first."
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The police tell him he can't speak to a lawyer for 24 hours. Does anyone know the rules about that in Cambodian law? Notorious NED? Cam Nivag? John Bingham?

Also, there was no Cambodian woman arrested. The Asian-looking chicks with her airbags hanging out is the Russian female arrested:

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