A former pharmacist known as “Mor Dear” was arrested on Friday and charged with a variety of offences in connection with the sale of unlicensed weight-loss pills. Some were allegedly laced with the banned and dangerous appetite suppressant sibutramine, resulting in the death earlier this month of a 30-year-old woman.

A 48-year-old man from Khon Kaen province has reportedly confessed to supplying the dangerous appetite suppressant sibutramine to a Kalasin-based weight-loss pill factory, which is being investigated in the death of a consumer, Kalasin deputy police commander Pol Colonel Triwit Sriprapa said on Wednesday.