25-year-old Thai drug lord, Sarahat Sawangjaeng, underwent multiple plastic surgeries to turn himself into a “handsome Korean man” in an attempt to avoid being caught by the police.
However, he still ended up being arrested by the police in Bangkok on 24 February, despite his extensive attempts to disguise himself.
He had gone through plastic surgery numerous times to change his face, as well as changing his name to JImin Cheong.
According to Thaiger, the drug lord who had imported MDMA (a psychoactive drug more commonly known as Ecstacy) into Thailand from Europe, was arrested at a condominium in the Bang Na district of Europe.
He had been on the run from the police since December 2022 and was eventually nabbed after an undercover police officer pretended to be interested in working for him as a drug mule.
The police were reportedly shocked when they arrested him at the condominium, as he had transformed his appearance with “none of his original face left”.
The police knew what Sarahat looked like originally due to his past arrest records, where he had been arrested three times before.
He confessed to buying the drugs from the Dark Web using Bitcoin and selling them to his customer base around Bangkok.
He was described as being one of the main causes of Bangkok’s MDMA epidemic by Thailand’s Police Major-General Thammasutee.
Thammasutee said that he is a drug lord who imported MDMA from Europe at just 25 years old and that they believe there are more suspects in foreign countries.
At the time of writing, the police are still investigating.