NSB chief Pol Lt-General Sommai Kongwisaisuk also claimed that drug production had apparently increased from 500 million yaba pills a year to five billion pills to make up for losses from previous busts. In the first case, Worapong Reuchajirakit, 64, and three accomplices were arrested along with 3.8 million yaba pills found in a six-wheel truck in Lampang’s Mae Prik district on Sunday. In the second case, Phuwanai Sae-her, 21, and two others were arrested along with 100,000 yaba pills in Ayutthaya province last week. It was alleged that the trio smuggled the heroin from the North to Songkhla under instructions from a person in Myanamar. “From producing 500 million yaba pills a year, now they make five billion,” he said.

Source: The Nation Bangkok August 22, 2017 11:26 UTC