Police in Myanmar have made an "off-the-charts” drugs bust seizing nearly 200 million methamphetamine tablets – more than eleven hundred pounds of crystal meth.
Cops also announced the seizure of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of contraband, including an "unprecedented" amounts of methylfentanyl, an ingredient of dangerously potent synthetic opioid drugs.
The 990 gallons of methylfentanyl could produce a huge quantity of fentanyl – a type of synthetic heroin up to 100 times deadlier than the real thing.
Jeremy Douglas, the regional coordinator for the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) described the scale of the bust in Lwe Kham village in Kutkhai Township as "truly off-the-charts." In a joint UNODC statement with