The amount of smuggled pork seized this year soared by 10-fold from the total last year due to high local pork prices, according to the Customs Department.
Patchara Anuntasilpa, director-general of the department, said that this year customs officials have seized 4.7 million tonnes of smuggled pork, almost 10 times the 480,000 tonnes of smuggled pork his department impounded throughout last year.
