Fugitive nabbed in Thailand given capital drug trafficking charge in Singapore
Tan Leng Chong is accused of conspiring with another man to traffic cannabis mixture.
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SINGAPORE: A wanted man who was nabbed in a Bangkok hotel during a raid by Thai police was charged in a district court in Singapore on Thursday (Jul 10).
Singaporean Tan Leng Chong, 50, was arrested in a raid by Thailand's Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) on Jul 5.
He was handed over to Singapore's Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) on Wednesday.
Tan is accused of abetting drug trafficking by conspiring with a N M Mahendran to traffic in cannabis mixture sometime before July 2024, outside Singapore.
Cannabis is a Class A Controlled Drug.
According to the charge, Mahendran had five blocks of vegetable matter containing at least 4,990.6g of cannabis mixture for the purpose of trafficking at about Jul 29, 2024 at Equatorial Apartments, a condominium at 48 Meyer Road.
Tan was remanded. He appeared in court via video-link in a white polo tee and did not say much in his brief appearance.
The prosecution asked for him to be remanded, with permission to take him out for investigations.
