BANGKOK: A Singaporean said to be wanted for alleged drug trafficking in the city-state has been arrested at a Bangkok hotel during a raid by Thai police, immigration officers and officers from the Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB).
In a statement on Facebook, the ONCB announced on Tuesday (Jul 8) that it successfully arrested 50-year-old Tan Leng Chong last Saturday. It added that Tan was wanted on an arrest warrant issued by the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) in Singapore in May for allegedly trafficking drugs from Thailand to the city-state.
Secretary-General of the ONCB, Phanurat Lakboon, said that Tan was found hiding in Pattaya, Chonburi province, as reported by Thai news outlet Bangkok Post.
He had used Thailand as a hiding spot as well as a base for his drug trafficking operations, according to a news report by NBT Connext of the Thai government’s public relations department.
ONCB said that last Saturday, investigators learned that Tan had travelled to Bangkok and he was seen meeting two Indonesians at a hotel.
An Indonesian man and woman believed to have been involved in the drug smuggling operations were also arrested in the hotel room, where illegal drugs such as ecstasy, ketamine, and Erimin-5, a prescription-only derivative of the depressant benzodiazepine, were seized.
