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Thai drug kingpin, Sarahat Sawangjaeng, underwent plastic surgery many times to look like a Korean to trick the police. Photo/Thai Police via Straits Times
BANGKOK – A kingpin drugs in Thailand have had many plastic surgeries and changed their names like Koreans. It was in an attempt to trick the police who were hunting him.
Sarahat Sawangjaeng (25), who changed her name to Jimin Cheong to suit her Korean appearance, was arrested by police at a luxury condominium in Bangkok’s Bang Na district last Friday.
Quoting Thaiger’s report, Monday (27/2/2023), the police were unable to recognize Sarahat when they raided the condominium unit to arrest her because her appearance had completely changed after undergoing many surgeries over the years.
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The plan to arrest Sarahat started on December 2 last year when the court issued an arrest warrant against him. The order was issued after police tracked down a package containing drugs for the man.
But police were unable to find the man until an undercover police officer pretending to be interested in working as a drug “mule” for Sarahat in Bangkok managed to contact him.
When found by the police, not a single face of Sarahat remained.
Since then, he has confessed to importing drugs from European countries into Thailand by ordering them through the dark web and paying in Bitcoins before selling them to customers in and around Bangkok.
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