August 21, 2025
NAYPYIDAW – According to a statement from the Narcotics Control Police, heroin and methamphetamine pills worth over 2.7 billion kyats were seized in Kalay Township, which was being trafficked to the Myanmar-India border.
According to the statement, a joint team of security forces seized 15.07 kilograms of heroin (estimated at 7,535 million kyats) and 9.92 million methamphetamine pills (estimated at 1.984 billion kyats) from a motorcycle trailer belonging to Win Ko Ko (B) Aeko near Si Gyi Village, Kyaung Tay Village Tract, Kalay Township, at around 5 p.m. on August 6.
Further investigation revealed that on August 7, at 1:30 p.m., Mee Aung (b) Mae Lone and Aung Khant Zaw (b) Aung Gyi, who had brought and handed over drugs from Mandalay to Kalay, were arrested at a house in Area (5), Shet Padhan Lane, Mingalar Garden Ward, Kalay, along with a HINO 12-wheeler that had transported drugs from Mandalay to Kalay.
Further investigation revealed that the people who were responsible for transporting the seized heroin and methamphetamine pills from Mandalay to Kalay were Bo Min and Soe Moe Oo, who were transporting and trading from Kyin Hmoon Khant, Khampat Township, Tamu Township, to the Myanmar-India border.
According to a statement from the Narcotics Control Police, those arrested in connection with the incident have been taken to court in accordance with the law, and the perpetrators of the series of crimes are still being identified.