Smugglers Get Sophisticated

While there's still no word on who sent or was supposed to receive the 35 tons of North Korean weapons that were intercepted last month in Thailand, authorities are starting to provide some answers at the complexities required by the smugglers in order to make the whole situation work.

Check the full story here.

Multiple fake companies and addresses from various countries were used, probably to make the shipping as confusing as possible to authorities. Haha.

The crew still claims to know nothing, and I still believe that would've been in their best interest. I don't know that much about shipping. Obviously, most crews can probably guess what they're carrying if they've been doing it long enough, but how many really know?

From the story:

'"We were to fly to Ukraine," the pilot, Ilyas Isakov of Kazakhstan, told Russian news agencies ITAR-Tass and RIA Novosti in response to written questions. "I don't know what the cargo owners intended to do next, but we were hired to fly it to Kiev's Borispil airport."

He said the crew was hired by a Ukrainian air freighter called Aviatek to pick up 35.8 tons of cargo in Pyongyang, North Korea — which included 25 tons of oil-drilling equipment and other cargo in sealed wooden boxes. He said the flight path included refueling stops in Bangkok and Sri Lanka.'

I get that I'm naive and still trying to believe that people are sincere, but honestly, how would they know what is in these sealed wooden boxes???

What do you think? Is this crew just trying to scam everyone? Or are they just a bunch of dummies who should've been more aware of who they were working for?