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Cambodia News (Phnom Penh): On November 20-25, 2020, the police of the Anti-drug department collaborated with customs police at Phnom Penh International Airport, Phnom Penh police, and Sihanoukville police, to crack down on a drug smuggling ring which was sending drugs from Cambodia to New Zealand and Australia by post.

The operation was done in three stages, after the drugs were first detected by the cargo customs officers at Phnom penh International Airport on 20 November 2020. Officers found 85,32 grams of methamphetamine hidden inside a pair of nun-chucks.

Then, on November 25, 2020, at the cargo section of Phnom Penh International airport, 1.295.67 grams of methamphetamine was found hidden in two wooden buddha statues.

On November 25, 2020, at IAL company, in Khan Sen Sok, Phnom Penh, two Cambodian men who were sending the drugs, named Loeung Sienghai, 31, and Chun Marady, 25, were arrested, and police confiscated 1.0448,48 grams of methamphetamine that were hidden in 4 buddha statues.


On November 27, 2020, after questioning the two suspects, police found and arrested CHEN KEXI, a 39-year-old Chines man, at room no. 205, at Vimean Akareach Apartments in Sangkat 4, Sihanoukville. He is believed to be the mastermind behind the smuggling operation. The police discovered 120,27 grams of methamphetamine hidden in 2 elephant statues and 2 sticks, ready to be sent overseas.


The 3 suspects were arrested with a total of 2.549,77 grams of drugs that they were planning to send to Australia and New Zealand.
The police are preparing the case of the suspects with the evidence .

What no chinese tea, no wonder they got caught

Best way to get caught #1
Wooden statues.
ffs, Every organic item lights up like fireworks under the scanner
and every wood item found flying into Oz then gets closely examined for insects (and drugs)

Best way to get caught #2
Clear plastic bags in full view
Marginally safer than #1

More drugs destined for Australia were found in parcels by Vietnamese customs officers this week.

Airport officials find 20 kg of drugs in packages bound for overseas distribution
By Quoc Thang November 25, 2020 | 10:00 am GMT+7

Part of 20 kg of narcotics found hidden in a foot massager machine at Tan Son Nhat International Airport, HCMC, November 24, 2020. Photo by HCMC Customs Department.
Customs officers at Tan Son Nhat airport in HCMC on Tuesday discovered over 20 kilograms of narcotics in nine packages to be sent overseas.

On suspicion, officials at the airport checked the packages and found heroin, cannabis and ecstasy, methamphetamine and other synthetic drugs inside.

They were hidden inside clothes, animal foods and foot massage machines.

All of them were destined for fake addresses or lacked the receiver’s name in the bill of lading.

One officer said 700 grams of the drugs were destined for Australia, without revealing further information for the rest of the packages.

The customs department and police have seized the drugs and are investigating.
https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/airpo ... 96586.html

Must be Covid.
All these small time, first time, totally clueless desperado's thinking they are as crafty as a modern day Mr Nice
- using methods that were dismissed by as childish and inept in Smuggler Sunday School more than 50 years ago.

poor buggers, 20 on the top and no sympathy from anybody
(meanwhile, the real modern day Mr Ice is still running wild and free)

SternAAlbifrons wrote: ↑Mon Nov 30, 2020 9:45 pm Must be Covid.
All these small time, first time, totally clueless desperado's thinking they are as crafty as a modern day Mr Nice
- using methods that were dismissed by as childish and inept in Smuggler Sunday School more than 50 years ago.

poor buggers, 20 on the top and no sympathy from anybody
(meanwhile, the real modern day Mr Ice is still running wild and free)

Ah yes, the modern-day Mr Ice, he is the one they would all like to catch and put behind bars, but he is so elusive some would ask his he for real, perhaps even the ghost man if he is really there. For the catcher there would be plenty of pats upon his back, even possibilities of recognition from authorities worldwide, for the help to rid one large burden from their lands. Or on the other hand is modern-day Mr Ice only that of myth, someone we seem to portray from watching the big move screen. It's more likely there is no modern-day Mr Ice, only that he is a figment of our own imagination.

I'll go you half way Andy. ??
- ALL of the many modern day Mr and Miss's Ice

but your scepticism is valid
Pointing to a few "Mr Bigs" diverts the attention from the more institutional nature of the biz.

SternAAlbifrons wrote: ↑Mon Nov 30, 2020 9:45 pm Must be Covid.
All these small time, first time, totally clueless desperado's thinking they are as crafty as a modern day Mr Nice
- using methods that were dismissed by as childish and inept in Smuggler Sunday School more than 50 years ago.

poor buggers, 20 on the top and no sympathy from anybody
(meanwhile, the real modern day Mr Ice is still running wild and free)

Mr Nice or Mr Ice? Mr Nice was a Welshman who dealt in a bit of pot and got caught many years ago. Who is Mr Ice?

^^ a play on words i think, there is a "Mr Ice" , based in the lawless north of Burma, there was an article here about him a while back.

Num-chuks? thats an interesting technique- hiding SERIOUS contraband inside less serious contraband.