BANGKOK: A Malaysian drug dealer dubbed the "Iceman" was sentenced to death Thursday by a court in Thailand after he was convicted of running a narcotics network that funneled huge profits into legitimate businesses.

Tun Hung Seong was arrested in April last year after a tipoff that he had hired a man to smuggle nearly 300 kilograms of crystal meth—known as ice—through the violence-scarred south.

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