Arrest of second drug kingpin ‘The Company’ in Thailand tightens dragnet on huge syndicate | Malay Mail

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BANGKOK, Feb 6 ― A second senior leader of a vast drug syndicate has been arrested, a Thai narcotics official said, as a transnational dragnet tightens on the Sam Gor group, which police say dominates the US$70 billion (RM284.6 billion) annual Asia-Pacific drug trade. The October arrest of Hong...

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Lee, 65, is a former prison mate of Tse's suspected of being involved in drug trafficking for four decades. A 2018 Australian Federal Police document reviewed by Reuters outlining the top 19 targets in the syndicate described Lee as a “senior project manager responsible for big ventures of border controlled drugs”.

“We understand his star had risen to be an equal or even a bigger player,” said one of the investigators. “He's a very significant arrest in his own right.”. The alleged role of Tse ― whose nickname is Sam Gor, or “Brother Number Three” in Cantonese ― as leader of the syndicate and the investigation into his activities was revealed by Reuters in 2019.

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