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Rosewood worth B2m seized

Police seized protected rosewood logs, or payoong, worth more than two million baht and arrested a suspect in northeastern Kalasin province on Sunday.

A team of police stopped an Udon Thani-registerd pickup truck driven by Taweesak Chanruang, 50, at a checkpoint on the Sakhon Nakhon-Kalasin Road in tambon Pa Sawoey of Somdej district on Sunday afternoon and found 22 rosewood logs in the vehicle’s back.

The seizure followed a tip-off that a gang would transport the illegally felled payoong from Pa Sawoey area to the adjacent Mukdahan province before smuggling it out of the country.

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    Discussion 1 : 08 Jul 2012 at 23.181

    This people never learnt. Destroying state property is the correct words for illegal logging. There is no other way to stop these people except to keep them in prison for a very very long time for them to learn.

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