Japanese police and
Customs officials at Fukuoka Airport have arrested seven Thai women who
smuggled drugs weighing more than a kilogram into the country.
Two of the women were
arrested this week with bundles of crystal meth (Ice) wrapped tightly plastic
and condoms and hidden in their private parts.
According to
Thailand’s Narcotics Board, Fukuoka Airport officials said the suspects, all
between 20 and 50, were searched because they were acting suspiciously.
The Narcotics Control
Board’s sec-gen, Niyom Termsrisuk, told reporters saying, “For those traveling into Japan,
please note that Japanese authorities are now hyper-vigilant about drug
smuggling into the country especially by visitors traveling from Thailand,” .
Upon questioning, all
seven women reportedly admitted to smuggling the drugs into the country for
sale to foreigners living in Japan.
37 Thais have been
arrested this year in 20 separate drug-smuggling incidents. Most of those busted were women traveling to
the country as tourists, Niyom said, adding that the perpetrators were hired,
encouraged or pressured into smuggling by an “ethnic” drug trafficker.
“We’d like to warn our
citizens not to fall victim or to be persuaded to be used as a tool in these
dealers’ cross-country smuggling schemes. This may come in the form of inviting
you to travel for free in exchange for hiding drugs in your body or they may
just blatantly ask you to smuggle drugs,” Niyom said.
Niyom said the
department is investigating the drug lords enticing Thais to smuggle drugs.
Photos: Two women
caught at Japan airport with packages of drugs wrapped in condoms and hidden in
their private parts
Photos: Two women
caught at Japan airport with packages of drugs wrapped in condoms and hidden in
their private parts