The World - News from Aug. 4, 1989
A senior Thai police official is under investigation in Bangkok after his indictment by a U.S. grand jury on charges he helped smuggle heroin into the United States, American and Thai officials said. A federal grand jury in Brooklyn, N.Y., indicted Maj. Gen. Vech Pechborom, an assistant police inspector, on four counts July 13. A U.S. official in Bangkok said Vech was part of a Southeast Asian ring that smuggled heroin into the United States at least 15 times. The official also said Vech is suspected of arranging for couriers to pass unchecked through Bangkok’s airport. Vech, who formerly commanded a crack anti-terrorist unit, denied the charges.
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