Russian man tried to pass 5kg marijuana into Thailand at Koh Kong border.

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Re: Russian man tried to pass 5kg marijuana into Thailand at Koh Kong border.

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The Thais have let her off scot free. She was an unwitting accomplice: a cart puller just hired to take his suitcase across.

The Russian has been identified as GARASHCHENKO ANDREY.
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It wasn't just ganja he was trying to smuggle into Thailand either, Heroin was found as well. (And some dodgy looking beauty cream.)
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Rama wrote:The Thais have let her off scot free. She was an unwitting accomplice: a cart puller just hired to take his suitcase across.

The Russian has been identified as GARASHCHENKO ANDREY.
http://khmeread.com/posts/17408

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It wasn't just ganja he was trying to smuggle into Thailand either, Heroin was found as well. (And some dodgy looking beauty cream.)
without it being drawn out. Glad for her. Garaschenko man looks pretty happy too.....,so far that is. Jeje.
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taabarang wrote:-since they say he is Russian i can only assume they know who he is."

Not necessarily. That may be info they obtained from interrogating the mule. Said info might be wrong.

how would an uneducated Khmer know if he was a Russian?

Plus the artice labove states.
Police said one of the foreign Russian GARASHCHENKO ANDREY 19.12.1988 birth, passport number 715653599 transnational traveling from Cambodia into Thailand from the international gateway Watching Koh and Trat.
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He is up shits creek now
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"how would an uneducated Khmer know if he was a Russian?"

He might have told her. The Cambodian word is very similar in sound to the Russian word. It little matters to me how or why. Please reciprocate and put me on the ignore list as I have done with you.
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She's very lucky. Saying you didn't know what the contents were is rarely considered and acceptable excuse for muling stuff over a border.
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A chap with a trolley is usually available to take a case or two over the Poipet border.

"Open the case, guv. Can't take it over until I know what's in it. Know what I mean?"
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Luigi wrote:Seems like smuggling coal to New Castle. Is there now a shortage of said product in Thailand?
It's a lot easier to grow marijuana in the relatively undeveloped countries that border Thailand than to grow it within Thailand.
Because of a slightly more lax attitude towards law enforcement, Cambodia has become a major hub for narcotics.
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Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote:She's very lucky. Saying you didn't know what the contents were is rarely considered and acceptable excuse for muling stuff over a border.
Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote:She's very lucky. Saying you didn't know what the contents were is rarely considered and acceptable excuse for muling stuff over a border.
agree, could have become real sticky for her. Assuming she really had no clue, I am glad for her and pleased to see the system going along with it.
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This story makes no sense. If these drugs belong to the Russian how did he get away?

She would have been pushing the cart along next to or at least close behind the owner and it takes 5 minutes to go through immigration. Even if he managed to clear immigration before the drugs were discovered it still takes an hour to cover the 100km to Trat, on a road that runs up a strip of land mostly less than a km wide with army checkpoints every 20kms or so. I'm not so easily convinced by her story.

Perhaps someone could come up with a theory as to how this mule system was supposed to work.
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