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Customs officials inspected the shipment after growing suspicious of training equipment from Thailand, which is not in great demand in Australia, said Thai and Australian officials investigating the matter at a press conference in Bangkok.
More than 193 kilograms of the drugs, also known as ice, were hidden in 15 different bags.
Surrounded by cameras, a Thai customs officer cut through a long cardboard box and then the red outer layer of the punching bag to reveal the drugs hidden in the filling.
“Australia uses about 11 tons of methamphetamine a year,” said Joel Carruthers, assistant superintendent of the Australian Border Force. “So there is a market for it and it’s fantastic to disrupt it offshore in places like Thailand.”
It served as a huge manufacturing center for amphetamine-type stimulants, particularly methamphetamine, used by Asian crime syndicates with distribution networks that stretch as far as Japan and New Zealand.
Meth backups in East and Southeast Asia rose 19% from 2019 to 2020, marking a new record high, according to the UNODC.
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