Xinhua | 2012-9-26
By Agencies
Cambodian authorities had seized more than 50 kilograms of drugs and
arrested 1,104 suspects in the first nine months of 2012, the report of
the National Authority for Combating Drugs (NACD) said on Wednesday.
During
the January-September period this year, the authorities had cracked
down on 524 drug cases with 1,104 traffickers including Cambodian,
Vietnamese, Laos, Thais, Chinese, Nigerian, Korean, American, French,
Norwegian and Filipino, the report said.
It said that the drugs
seized from them including 29.42 kilograms of cocaine, 17.28 kilograms
of crystal methamphetamines, 47,041 methamphetamine pills, 65 ecstasy
pills, 181 grams of heroin, 442 grams of ketamine, and 2.8 kilograms of
safrole-rich oil, a key ingredient in the manufacture of the illicit
recreational drug ecstasy.
Speaking in a drug meeting on
Wednesday, Deputy Prime Minister Ke Kim Yan, NACD's Chairman, hailed the
anti-drug authorities for their active busts and urged them to work
harder to build a country free of drugs by 2015.
According to the
NACD's statistics, currently some 1,524 Cambodian addicts of a total of
4,518 have received treatment to quit their drug habit. However, the
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) estimated that the
country has up to 46,000 people using drug, most of them are youths.
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