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Smuggled oil depot busted in South

Published: 2 Oct 2012 at 11.55
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Nearly 400 suspected traders of smuggled oil in five southernmost border provinces may have links to illegal arms and drug smuggling, as well as the insurgency, an officer of the Region 4 Internal Security Operations Command (Isoc) said.

Col Jatuporn Kalampasut, chief of a working group for solving security-related problems, was speaking after a combined security forces team raided two depots used to store smuggled oil in tambon Samnak Kham in Sadao district of Songkhla on Monday.

They seized 11 oil trucks, 25,000 litres of smuggled oil, some weapons and ammunition and a quantity of drugs.

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amerman
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Discussion 3 : 02 Oct 2012 at 13.423
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Now you got it Isoc. Hit them were it hurts. Their business. Take their supplies, freeze and confiscate their money and bank accounts. While your at it I would be checking all deposts made from anyone in the area or related to the area. If you stop the illegal business then maybe you will run them out of Thailand. Good Job!
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Perhaps the authorities will now understand why there has been no demands,no one taking responsibility for any of the killings(as is usually the case with real seperatist/insurgency groups)nor the naming of leaders by the murderous so called "seperatist/insurgency groups" ?
It is simply criminal gangs disguising their crimes as an insurgency to scare off the authorities and hinder proper investigations.
I congratulate the ISOC for this break-through. Keep it up.
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If big oil trucks can pass the border unnoticed then it will be easy to smuggle weapons in the country as well, you need to tighten up the border control guys !!!
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