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Section 27, CUSTOMS ACTS B.E.2469(1926) : Prevention of Smuggling
Any person imports or brings into the Kingdom any tax unpaid, restricted,
or prohibited goods, or any goods which has not duty passed through
the customs, or exports or takes such goods out of the Kingdom or assists
in any way in importing or exporting..........or avoids the prohibition or
restriction of such goods, for each offence there shall be a fine of four
times the amount of price of the goods including duty or to imprisonment
for a term of not exceeding ten years, or to both.
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Section 99, CUSTOMS ACTS B.E.2469(1926) : False Declarations
Any person who makes or allows others to make or submits or arranges
for others to submit a shipment entry, declaration, certificate, record or
other instruments to the competent official in relation to this Act or
required by this Act,..... which is false, incomplete, or misleading in any
particular statement, such person shall be liable to imprisonment for a
term not exceeding six months or a fine not exceeding five hundred
thousand Bath or both the fine and imprisonment.
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India
Ephedrine Smuggling Route
Singapore
Thailand
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India
Pseudoephedrine Smuggling Route
South Korea
Turkey
Myanmar
Singapore
Thailand
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Updated on 31.01.2015
Fiscal year No. of cases Quantity (Kg.)
2010 4 1,502
2011 10 8,440
2012 4 783
2013 1 1
2014 3 105
Total 22 10,831
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Pattern of Smuggling
1. Travel direct route from the departing
country to the destination country.
2. Avoid destination city (Bangkok) by using
the nearby city i.e. Phuket, Chonburi.
3. Travel indirect route/indirect transit Ex.
Unreasonable routing.
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Smuggling Method
• Smuggling though land boundary (concealed inside truck)
• Smuggling though International airport
(concealed in sole of shoes / personal
baggage)
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Significant Seizure Cases
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Date : 9 August 2011
Drug type : EPHEDINE / 2,400 grams.
Nationality : Indian / Male
Route : Hyderabad, India - Bangkok - Krabi int’l
Airport
Concealment Method : In frame of the baggage
Place of seizure : Passenger Terminal, Suvarnabhumi
Int’l Airport
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Date : 30 August 2014
Drug type : PSEUDOEPHEDRIN / 1,300 grams.
Nationality : Nepalese / Male
Route : KOLKATA, India - Bangkok, Thailand
Concealment Method : In bottom of the baggage
Place of seizure : Passenger Terminal,
Suvarnabhumi Int’l Airport
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Date : 15 September 2014
Drug type : PSEUDOEPHEDRIN / 3,800 grams.
Nationality : Indian / Male
Route : Bukdogra, India - Bangkok, Thailand
Concealment Method : In the baggage
Place of seizure : Passenger Terminal,
Suvarnabhumi Int’l Airport
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Date : 11 April 2014
Drug type : Sodium Cyanide / 550 kilograms.
Offender : -
Route : Mae Sai, Thailand - Tha Khi Lek, Myanmar
Concealment Method : -
Place of seizure : Mae Sai Customs House