[영상M] Drug dealers even use express bus luggage compartments… Smuggling techniques evolve

At 0:45 am on July 21, last year, Gimhae Express Bus Terminal in Gyeongsangnam-do.

Two men in white and black t-shirts appear on the empty bus platform.

If you look closely at the white man’s right hand, you can see that he is holding a black bag.

The man, who was looking around, looked at the departure time posted on the windshield of the bus and went to the driver’s lounge in the corner.

Six minutes later, the bus driver, who does not know English, loads the bag given to him by the man onto the express bus.

The express bus left Gimhae at 1 am and arrived at Gangnam Express Bus Terminal in Seoul at 5:15 am.

Then another man in a white t-shirt and jeans appears and slowly disappears with the bag in question.

What was in the bag was methamphetamine, a representative drug.

Why did they use the old ‘Fast Bus Baggage Service’?

Lately, drug distribution methods are becoming similar to some voice phishing organizations.

The reason why voice phishers use a ‘box clock’ or ‘part-time pick-up book’ is to complicate the intermediate stage and disrupt the investigation, while also preventing them from being arrested even if they get hold them and give up their profits.

Drug trafficking shows a similar trend, the police explain.

Almost 100% of recently arrested drug offenders use the ‘throw’ technique.

It is a method of opening a Telegram account with a canon phone or a prepaid phone and connecting to each other, leaving drugs in a specific place, such as an alley or under a tree beforehand, so that buyers can visit them.

The problem is that the ‘throwing’ technique is well known, so citizens often report suspicious behavior or white powder before the buyer arrives.

If one of the sellers or buyers is caught, there is also a risk that the other will be caught easily through CCTV analysis.

As a result, the bus luggage delivery service is said to be a secret that complicates the delivery stage and does not reveal its identity.

When delivering bags by midnight bus, we often receive ‘cash’ shipments.

Therefore, the suspects considered it suitable for carrying luggage at a low price without revealing personal information such as mail or courier, and at the same time avoiding investigative agencies.

However, after more than a year of investigation, all the drug dealers were identified, as well as those who entrusted the parcel.

Although it is a different case, a man in his 30s trying to find ‘ketamine’ packaged as baby food at the courier service center of the Gangnam Express Bus Terminal was also arrested by the Korea Customs Service.

The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency’s drug crime investigation team traced methamphetamine distribution channels in Korea from August last year to September this year.

As a result, 69 people were arrested, including 21 people selling methamphetamine and 48 people who bought and supplied methamphetamine, 12 of whom were arrested on charges of violating the Narcotics Control Act.

They also seized 20 million in proceeds of crime as well as enough methamphetamine to be administered 12,000 times.

The police wanted two executives who fled among the sales books, and one of them, who fled abroad, asked for a red want from Interpol.

(Video provided by Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency’s Drug Crime Investigation Unit)