Singapore drug dealer could face death after deportation
published : 19 Sep 2024 at 07:49
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Online Reporters
A Singaporean drug smuggler who was arrested this week in Samut Prakan will be deported back to his country, where he is likely to be given the death penalty, officials said on Wednesday.
Benny Kee Soon Chuan ran a smuggling operation involving crystal meth, ketamine and ecstasy, to Australia and Singapore via Thailand, according to the Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB).
Further investigation showed the suspect was involved in two previous smuggling cases in which drugs were shipped to Singapore and Australia in 2021.
Local investigators found he had fled his country and was living a luxurious life in Bang Phli district in Samut Prakan.
The man’s Thai visa was cancelled, and officers of Singapore’s Central Narcotics Bureau joined with Thai authorities to arrest him on Tuesday. Assets worth 15 million baht were also seized.
The ONCB is working to have the man deported. Under Singaporean law, those who engage in drug trafficking can face capital punishment.
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Vocabulary
- assets: things owned by a person, company etc., particularly money and property - ทรัพย์สิน
- capital punishment (noun): the punishment of putting someone to death for a crime; capital punishment - โทษประหารชีวิต
- crystal methamphetamine (noun): a white crystalline form of the drug methamphetamine that people take by inhaling through the nose, smoking it or injecting it with a needle -
- death penalty (noun): the punishment of putting someone to death for a crime; capital punishment - โทษประหารชีวิต
- deport: to send someone out of a country, usually because they do not have a legal right to be there - เนรเทศออกจากประเทศ, ส่งตัวกลับประเทศ
- deportation: the process of forcing someone to leave a country, especially someone who has no legal right to be there or who has broken the law - การเนรเทศออกจากประเทศ
- ecstasy (noun): an illegal drug, taken especially by young people at parties, clubs, etc. - ยาอี
- investigator: someone whose job is to officially find out the facts about something, especially a crime or accident - ตำรวจฝ่ายสอบสวนคดีอาชญากรรม
- ketamine (noun): a drug that causes a lack of feeling in the body -
- luxurious: very comfortable and expensive; of the best and most expensive - ฟุ่มเฟือย, โอ่อ่า
- seize: to take something using official power and force - จับกุม
- smuggle: to take drugs, money, people, etc. to or from a place secretly and often illegally - ลักลอบนำเข้า
- visa: an official document or mark in your passport that allows you to enter or leave a country for a specific purpose or period of time - วีซ่า, เอกสารอนุมัติที่ประทับตราบนหนังสือเดินทาง
- Keywords
- Drug smuggler
- death penalty
- Singapore
- ketamine
