A statement released by the State Counsellor’s Office yesterday relayed that Rakhine authorities confiscated 3.4 million meth tablets at Sittwe’s Yay Chan Pin Port at around 11:30am on Sunday.
After being tipped off on Sunday morning, police conducted vehicle searches at the port. While searching a Skat vehicle that belonged to 54-year-old Aung Saw Than, they found that the floors of the car had been reworked to create hidden compartments. It was there that they discovered 340 bags of WY pills, the street name for a locally sold type of methamphetamine. Each bag contained 10,000 pills.
Officials estimate that the entire stash is worth MMK6.8 billion.
Once interrogated, Aung Saw Than confessed that he had been paid K400,000 by someone to drive the vehicle to Sittwe’s Myoma Market. He was told that once he arrived at his destination, he would receive a phone call and someone else would come and get the car. Obviously, that plan went bust when police stopped him at the port.
Aung Saw Than is currently being detained at the Sittwe Police Station and will be charged. Police are also on the hunt for the other individuals involved in the case.
While this could very well be the biggest drug bust in Sittwe to date, the 240 million pills found in a Mingaladon home last December is still the nation-wide frontrunner.
