Police from the Anti-Drug Department continue to question three suspects on October 26 after arresting them during a crackdown on illegal drug trafficking into Cambodia and confiscating about 160kg of drugs on October 25 in Phsar Thmei 1 commune of the capital’s Daun Penh district.

In Song, a spokesman for the Anti-Drug Department, told The Post on October 26 that the three suspects were a Cambodian man and two foreigners – one Vietnamese and one Laotian. The police seized 160kg of methamphetamines, better known on the street as “ice”.

He said that on the afternoon of October 25, anti-drug police, coordinated by Sith Vann, Deputy Prosecutor of the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, investigated and cracked down on drug trafficking cases from Laos to Cambodia and arrested the three suspects.

He said that the anti-drug authorities are continuing to investigate to get more details about this drug trafficking case to find any other possible suspects linked to it.

“We are now continuing to interrogate them and search for others involved so we have not yet sent these three to court,” he said.

He said that the suspects confessed that they crossed the border through the Mekong River corridor and transported their drugs by boat and then a truck, but when driving home they were stopped by the authorities.

“According to their confessions, they thought they were in the clear once they made it across the water without being spotted... but we had a high suspicion that their truck was loaded with drugs, so we stopped and checked it,” he said.

Song said that the operation to crack down on drugs was carried out based on the orders of National Police Chief Neth Savoeun and Deputy National Police Chief of the Anti-Drug Department Mak Chito, under the direct supervision of Loek Vannak, Director of the Anti-Drug Department.