By Mai Chi  June 24, 2018 | 01:28 pm GMT+7 Luu So Qui and accomplices produced and traded over 3kg of heroin meant for the Australian market. Ho Chi Minh City will prosecute five people, including a Vietnamese Australian, for illegally producing and transporting narcotics. The Australian citizen, Luu So Qui, and a Vietnamese resident of Ho Chi Minh City will be charged with illicit production and trading of narcotics, while three other Vietnamese people will be prosecuted for illegally trading the substances. According to the city’s prosecutors, between 2015 and 2017, the five people had traded over 3kg of heroin that was to be smuggled to Australia. Qui and a member of the ring named Nhan had produced the drugs under orders from an acquaintance of Qui, a Vietnamese Australian woman named Hoa. Qui, under the direction of a man named Trieu in the five-member ring, also bought 1.7 kg of heroin and sent it to Australia through the post office. Local police … [Read more...] about Vietnamese Australian, 4 others face drug trafficking charges
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Belgian drug trafficker gets life imprisonment in Cambodia
Illustrative image (Source: detroitjournalism.org)) Phnom Penh (VNA) - A court in Cambodia on June 22 sentenced a Belgian man to life in prison for attempting to smuggle 1kg of cocaine into Cambodia. David Noel Catry, 34, was arrested on January 2018 at the Phnom Penh International Airport when a kilogram of cocaine was found in his suitcase. According to Cambodian media, Catry confessed to the court that he had been offered 30,000 USD by a Brazilian man to bring the drug from Brazil to the Southeast Asian country. The Phnom Penh Municipal Court also fined him 20,000 USD. Cambodia has no death sentence for drug traffickers. Under its law, anyone who traffics more than 80 grams of illicit drug will be facing life imprisonment. Since Thailand has taken tough measures against drug smuggling activities in the early 2000s, Cambodia has become a route used for trafficking drug, especially methamphetamine and heroin. The Cambodian Government has promoted the fight against trafficking … [Read more...] about Belgian drug trafficker gets life imprisonment in Cambodia
Lao drug traffickers arrested near border with Vietnam
Dien Bien (VNA) – Three Lao nationals were caught red-handed trafficking 10 bricks of heroin, 31,000 meth pills, 2 kg of opium and four guns near the shared border with Vietnam on June 11. The three men were found trading drugs in a village in May district, the Lao province of Phongsaly, which shares the border with Vietnam’s northern mountainous province of Dien Bien during a joint operation between the two provinces’ armed forces. They are alleged to be drug wholesalers and have transported drugs from Laos to Vietnam. The suspects and objects of evidence were handed over to the Lao side for further investigation. Police in Dien Bien arrested three people trafficking 135 bricks of heroin and 500,000 meth pills in March. This was the large drugs trafficking case with the largest quantity of synthetic drug pills seized in Vietnam so far. Earlier on January 3 this year, the provincial Drug Crime Investigation Office captured two persons transporting 489 bricks of … [Read more...] about Lao drug traffickers arrested near border with Vietnam
Lao Cai razes drug trafficking ring with 329 bricks of heroin
In the afternoon of May 15, local police arrested Nguyen Van Dai, born in 1975 and residing in Thach Son commune, Anh Son district of the central province of Nghe An, and Nguyen Van Ly, born in 1991 and residing in Anh Son town, Anh Son district of Nghe An for illegally transporting the heroin. The duo drove a Ford Ranger car with 329 heroin bricks hidden in many places of the car such as floor and oil tank. At the police station, they admitted that they were transporting the drug from Nghe An to Lao Cai for cross-border sale. The provincial police started keeping an eye on the case from April 27, 2016. They launched activities to uncover the ring on May 6, 2018 under the instruction of Colonel Dinh Tien Quan, Director of the Lao Cai Department of Public Security and Colonel Hoang Manh Hung, Vice Director of the department. The case is under further investigation.Vietnamnews Tags: Lao Cai drug trafficking ring bricks of heroin … [Read more...] about Lao Cai razes drug trafficking ring with 329 bricks of heroin
Thailand busts major drug trafficking ring
Thai police seize drug haul (Source: Bangkokpost) Bangkok (VNA) – Thai police announced on April 2 that they busted a major drug trafficking ring in Songkhla province, seizing 651kg of crystal meth worth 17 million USD. They arrested a suspect who was carrying drugs to the Malaysian border and an accomplice in Phitsanulok province, both of them Thai nationals. Police also confiscated two pick-up trucks and three mobile phones. The suspects are alleged to be part of a transnational drug trafficking ring called Phor Liang Tee, which is believed to engage in drug and human trafficking. Recently, Thailand has busted many large-scale drug trafficking rings. In late 2017, the country destroyed some 17 tonnes of drugs worth more than 500 million USD.-VNA … [Read more...] about Thailand busts major drug trafficking ring