Mizzima, 3 Mar 2009
Rangoon (Mizzima) – The military establishment in Burma has arrested at least five people since January in connection with an international drug trade.
The arrests came in the wake of raids conducted in Rangoon’s upper class residential quarters, following the narcotics drug control police seizing 83 blocks of heroin from containers in a ship that was bound for Singapore on January 25.
Police seized the heroin packets kept inside timber in three containers owned by Jewellery Luck Company, on a Singaporean-flagged ship 'Kota Tegap' bound for Singapore from Asia World port in Ahlone Township of the largest business city.
The port is owned by Tun Myint Naing, son of a former drug kingpin Lo Hsing Han, who the US treasury Department has blacklisted.
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