BANGKOK: Customs officers seized counterfeit and untaxed products worth at least 100 million baht, the biggest seizure ever made, and arrested two men during a search of two trucks on the motorway between Bangkok and Chachoengsao in the early hours of Saturday.
A team of customs officers stopped the suspected trucks on the motorway between Bang Pakong and Lat Krabang around 1.30am on Saturday after following the vehicles from Chachoengsao province.
The resulting search found more than 100,000 items of untaxed and fake brand-name products in the two trucks. Drivers Bangchong Saenpong and Chan Thinkhamcherd were arrested, Customs Department chief Kulit Sombatsiri said at a news conference on Saturday.
The seized items included snartphones and accessories, tablets, cosmetics, clothes, children’s toys, designer handbags, shoes, car accessories and sports equipment. The items were worth at least 100 million baht, officers said.
The two suspects confessed they had been hired to smuggle the items from a warehouse in Chachoengsao to deliver to an agent on Rama II Road in Bangkok.
Authorities seized the two trucks and held the two drivers in custody for legal action. An investigation was continuing to find those behind the smuggling.
