YANGON: A Buddhist monk in Myanmar has been caught hiding more than four million methamphetamine pills in his monastery, police said on Monday, following a record haul of stimulant seizures last year. "The police then went to the monk's monastery and found another 4.2 million pills." Last year, police confiscated a record 98 million stimulant tablets, nearly double the 50 million seized in 2015. Trafficking has particularly been on the rise in Rakhine state, home to more than a million people from the impoverished Muslim Rohingya minority. In Sept, state media reported that two men had been arrested after 6.2 million methamphetamine tablets were found in their car in Maungdaw.

Source: New Strait Times February 07, 2017 01:44 UTC