Dutch Drug Suspect Nabbed

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Dutch Drug Suspect Nabbed

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Dutch drug suspect with B100m assets seized

Authorities raided four places in Chon Buri on Wednesday and arrested a Dutchman on the wanted list in the Netherlands and his Thai wife. They also seized several bank accounts, cars amd other assets worth about 100 million baht. Officials with an arrest warrant issued by the Criminal Court and a search warrant from the Pattaya court targeted four places in Bang Lamung and Satthahip districts,including a house in Sattahip where Johannes Petrus Maria van Vanarhoven and his Thai wife Mingkwan Kaen-in, or Mingkwan Vanarhoven, were apprehended. The capture of Mr van Vanarhoven followed a request from Dutch authorities who want him on charges of selling drugs in the Netherlands, said Surasak Treerattrakul, the Office of the Attorney-General (OAG)...

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http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/crimes/ ... -chon-buri



I hope some of our local convicted but in hiding drug dealers are sleeping a little less soundly these days :rasta:

Maybe they will put them in Thai jails with some unsavory characters. Deserves no leniency.
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They will be lying low now that we are under martial law.
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Selling drugs in Holland - now that would be a first!
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Pattaya News website spells his name correctly Van Laarhoven.
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With such a large operation dealing in pot which is bulky.....how has he been shipping all of this to Holland? It appears he's been doing it for a long time and no scanner/dog/inspector has found it on the outbound from here. Greased palms or what? Pete

EDIT: Greased palms is a bribe in slang, not a slippery tree. :shock: :laugh:
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