After months of tracing and identifying the baron of a drug smuggling ring, forces from Viet Nam and Laos raided the organisation last month, seizing 5.5 metric tons of drugs – the biggest smuggling case ever uncovered in Southeast Asia.

The drug ring baron, Lamphunxilaxa, 47, who is a Thai national but mainly lives and works in Laos, was arrested during the raid.

At exactly 2:00 pm on July 23, Lamphunxilaxa arrived at the warehouse in his pickup.

A large amount of drugs was seized after a raid on a drug warehouse in Laos' forest in July 2015.

Hundreds of Vietnamese and Laotian policemen raided the site at the same time, and the targets were so surprised that they could not react.

Eleven people, including Lamphunxilaxa and ten Laotians, were arrested. Around 5.5 metric tons of synthetic drugs and substances were confiscated.

The Vietnamese Penal Code rules that twenty years of imprisonment, life imprisonment or capital punishment can be given to those who are convicted of illegally stockpiling, transporting, trading in or appropriating heroin or cocaine weighing from one hundred grams.

(Source: Tuoitrenews)