Laos private jet bust reveals how Mekong meth slips past borders
Drug experts say narcotics production infrastructure extends across Southeast Asia, and transport routes are fluid and move with enforcement
But methamphetamine – in its high potency crystallised form, or the cheaper caffeine-cut yaba pills – still stalks the region, spewing out mainly from Myanmar to Southeast Asia and then onto lucrative markets further afield in Australia, New Zealand and Japan.
On October 1, Luang Prabang airport in northern Laos came under scrutiny as a new potential narcotics route when drug police found nearly two dozen suitcases stuffed with crystal meth.
