72-Year-Old Japanese Man caught Smuggling Meth From Cambodia (UPDATED)

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72-Year-Old Japanese Man caught Smuggling Meth From Cambodia (UPDATED)

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Phnom Penh, Cambodia News: Lim Sambath, head of the Customs and Excise Office at the Phnom Penh International Airport, told reporters this morning that his officers have detained a 72-year-old Japanese man, NONAKA SHUNICHI, in possession of almost 2 kilos of methamphetamine.
The busted smuggler was due to board flight KE 690 from Phnom Penh to Seoul, before continuing en route for Japan, the final destination for the drugs.
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After preliminary questioning by customs police, the Japanese man is due to appear before a judge first thing tomorrow morning, 18 February 2020.
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Why are they pixelating his face? They never pixelate faces...
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Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: Mon Feb 17, 2020 5:52 pm Why are they pixelating his face? They never pixelate faces...
A friend told me ppl from the land of the rising sun have a preference for pixelated privates.. =@ :whip:
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Phnom Penh: Cambodian police are now searching for a Nigerian man in Phnom Penh, who allegedly handed over the drugs to the Japanese 'mule' to take to a Ghanaian man in Japan.
Gen Chito said the customs police officer on duty saw the drugs hidden in Shunichi’s luggage as it passed through the scanning machine. The suspect was arrested immediately afterwards.

“He was caught carrying drugs at the Phnom Penh International Airport after the customs police inspected his luggage.

“Police seized a total of seven bags of crystal methamphetamine, weighing 1,705.85 grams [nearly 2kg]. The drugs were stored in plastics and tucked at the bottom of his luggage,” told Gen Chito to Khmer Times.

He added during police interrogation, Shunichi confessed to the offence, saying he was hired by an unidentified Ghanaian man living in Japan to travel to the Kingdom and smuggle out drugs received from an unidentified Nigerian man in Phnom Penh.

Aside from the promised payment, the suspect’s travel expenditures, including his food and accommodations, were paid for by the unidentified Ghanaian.

The suspect confessed to receiving $1,000 upon his arrival to Phnom Penh on February 12 and meeting the Nigerian man at a hotel to receive the package the following day.

A search, Lieu Gen Vannak said, is now underway for the arrest of other suspects related to the case.
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50692004/j ... ling-drugs
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How greedy can ya get? A 72 year old Japanese is already plenty rich. Sure he'll live another 20 to 30 years, but that's pure greed!
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how can anyone assume a Man in his 70s is already rich enough?
that is pure nonsense..
Watch Clint Eastwood's flic The Mule..
Did I miss some news flash that all elderly Japanese men are rich?
Perhaps, he lost his bundle at a shit hole casino?
Maybe he needs money for his wife's surgery?
He did not seem greedy..
He seemed desperate ...
so fucked up..
this evil shit going all over poisoning people.. destroying lives...users and non-users.
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Marty wrote: Tue Feb 18, 2020 5:45 am How greedy can ya get? A 72 year old Japanese is already plenty rich. Sure he'll live another 20 to 30 years, but that's pure greed!

No, It's pure '' stupidity ''. Which is why a 72 year old was targeted.
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Like the spoilt child she is, she will not be happy till she destroys herself from within and breaks your heart.
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True that! And he's probably never even tried methamphetamine. That's the shit they used to pump up and embolden kamikaze pilots and he's way too young to have done that!
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j57 wrote: Tue Feb 18, 2020 7:40 am how can anyone assume a Man in his 70s is already rich enough?
that is pure nonsense..
Watch Clint Eastwood's flic The Mule..
Did I miss some news flash that all elderly Japanese men are rich?
Perhaps, he lost his bundle at a shit hole casino?
Maybe he needs money for his wife's surgery?
He did not seem greedy..
He seemed desperate ...
so fucked up..
this evil shit going all over poisoning people.. destroying lives...users and non-users.
Plenty of drug gangs, (or back in the day, gold smugglers) that move small amounts (less than 5 kilos) often use older persons as they are less likely to be searched.
been like that for ages.
In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. HST
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They call him Methuselah.
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