A Malaysian drug dealer, Tun Hung Seong, 65, dubbed the ‘Iceman’ was sentenced to death by a court after he was convicted of running a narcotics network that earned huge profits into legitimate businesses. Investigators believe he acted as a gatekeeper to the Malaysian drug market just over the border and laundered money through karaoke bars, hotels and restaurants
The Bangkok court convicted him on drug trafficking charges alongside two Thai women and a Taiwanese man. He was arrested in April last year after a tip-off that he had hired a man to smuggle nearly 300 kilograms of crystal meth known as ice through the violence-scarred south.
The Bangkok court convicted Tun on drug trafficking charges alongside two Thai women and a Taiwanese man. All four were sentenced to death, although the sentences of the Taiwanese man and one of the Thai women were reduced to life imprisonment due to their ‘useful’ confessions.
Malaysian authorities in May said they seized a record 1.2 tonnes of crystal meth from Myanmar hidden in tea packets, believed to be the largest ever in the country in terms of value and weight.
The country carried out its first execution since 2009 in June, after previously sending signals it would abolish the practice.
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