Thai drug suspect had plastic surgery to look like South Korean man, say police
A suspected Thai drug dealer who had extensive plastic surgery to make him look "Korean" has been arrested after evading capture for three months, police have said.
Saharat Sawangjaeng, 25, was detained at an apartment in the Thai capital and has been charged with importing and possessing ecstasy (MDMA), a class one drug, reported the Bangkok Post.
He had escaped detention last year despite his arrest - but in recent days was tracked down by officers who analysed where the drug was being distributed to other sellers and buyers in the city, the publication said.
This led police to an individual who witnesses described as "an attractive South Korean man".
Officers said Saharat, who had been on the run since December, has confessed to ordering MDMA on the dark web and using cryptocurrency to pay for it, according to the Bangkok Post.
He had spent three months with a dramatically different look, reinventing himself as a South Korean national called Jimin Seong.
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