From: Bangkok Post
WRITER: ABDULLOH BENJAKAT
Some of the smuggled cigarettes are shown at the southern forward command of the Internal Security Operations Command in Yarang district, Pattani, on Monday. (Photo by Abdulloh Benjakat)
Security authorities have seized nearly 9,000 packets of smuggled cigarettes worth about 3.34 million baht in Pattani province from members of an insurgent group believed behind multiple bombings in the far South.
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The group ran a cooperative as a front for its smuggling operation and its members had been arrested with contraband cigarettes last year, the Isoc statement said.
