The head of a Southeast Asian drug smuggling organization was arrested in Cambodia and forcibly returned to Korea.



The National Police Agency arrested a 35-year-old woman A, who defected from North Korea in 2011 and left for China in 2018, and smuggled methamphetamine, etc. into Korea from Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, etc. ) to have been repatriated to Korea.



'Throwing' refers to a method in which drugs are not directly met and traded, but are found by telling them where they are hidden.



The National Police Agency received an Interpol red wanted for Mr. A in December 2018, and while cooperating with Interpol of China, she received information that Mr. A was smuggling into Southeast Asian countries and working together with the Thai and Cambodian police.



The location of Mr. A was revealed in April last year, when it was confirmed that the hiding place of the drug suspect was leased in the name of Mr. A.



The National Police Agency requested the Thai police to arrest Mr. A and provided information about Mr. A, which he obtained from the National Intelligence Service, and the Thai police succeeded in catching Mr.



However, she was detained, Mr. A paid 200 million won bail to a Thai court, and she was released after a month.



After that, the NIS obtained intelligence that Mr. A, who was released, is still smuggling drugs into Korea, and the Gyeonggi Northern Police Agency arrested two domestic accomplices who received drugs from Mr. A while on bail.



The police, in cooperation with the Thai and Cambodian police and the National Intelligence Service, confirmed the intelligence that Mr. A was staying in Cambodia in January of this year, and then arrested Mr. A, who was hiding in a local apartment on the 30th of the same month.



“We will continue to strengthen the network of cooperation between Interpol and domestic agencies regarding crimes based abroad,” said Kang Ki-taek, director of the Interpol International Cooperation Division at the National Police Agency.



(Screen provided: National Intelligence Service, National Police Agency)