A police team would also be set up to handle the money-laundering investigation, said Nong Khai police chief Pol Maj-General Paisal Leusombat on Wednesday. Suebanh Tiasili, 30, and Khumborn Tiasyly, 24, have already paid a Bt40,000 fine for failing to declare the cash to Customs officials and were released on bail. Paisal said police had not investigated the case from the beginning because it had not been forwarded by Nong Khai Customs Office officials who first made the arrest and confiscated the banknotes. Since the AMLO filed the police complaint, police will ask Nong Khai Customs to hand over the cash – which has been deposited since mid-December in a bank by authorities pending further action – as evidence. Investigators from the Office of the Narcotics Control Board and the AMLO then joined Customs agents in examining the case.

Source: The Nation Bangkok February 07, 2018 09:55 UTC