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Lao drug kingpin with celebrity links gets 2nd life sentence
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A court in Thailand gave a second life sentence Wednesday to a drug kingpin from Laos whose social connections to various celebrities were exposed by his arrest.
Bangkok's Criminal Court initially handed Xaysana Keophimpha a death sentence for smuggling 1 million methamphetamin e pills from Laos to southern Thailand and Malaysia, but reduced his punishment to life in prison because he cooperated during the police investigation.
The same court in March had handed Xaysana a life sentence over the smuggling of 1.2 million methamphetamin e pills from Laos after a group of traffickers identified him as the leader of their network.