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HCM City (VNA) – The Ho Chi Minh City Police said on September 9 that they busted a ring smuggling a combined 47 kilogrammes of drug from Cambodia to the Vietnamese southern hub. The ring was smashed on September 2, they revealed. Bui Thi Kieu Loan (born in 1985), Nguyen Hoang Tu (born in 1984) and Pham Dinh Nhan (born in 1977) were caught red handed while receiving the drug conceived in two fruit boxes from a transporter they hired at a market in Hoc Mon district on the outskirts of HCM City. The drugs include nearly 30 kilogrammes of crystal meth, over 9.2 kilogrammes of ketamine, 15 bricks of heroin and 20,000 ecstasy tablets. Further investigation into the case is underway. Vietnam is one of the countries with strictest penalties against drugs trafficking, with those found with more than 100 grams of heroin or cocaine facing death penalty./. … [Read more...] about Large ring trafficking drugs from Cambodia busted

Eight Laotians had been arrested when they were carrying 10kg of crystal meth and a loaded pistol through Lao Bao International Border Gate in Quang Tri Province, located in north-central Vietnam, Colonel Le Van Phuong, commander of the provincial border defense force, said on Monday. … [Read more...] about Vietnam arrests 8 Laotians for smuggling 10kg of crystal meth across border

Traffickers hid drugs in fruit boxes to avoid police detection. Photo: Supplied On Sunday, Vietnamese police captured eight Laotians when they were carrying 10kg of crystal meth and a loaded pistol across the border from Laos. … [Read more...] about Ho Chi Minh City police announce bust of new drug racket

Officers of the Division of Drug Investigation in HCMC in collaboration with their peers from the Ministry of Public Security said that they had broken up a ring that smuggled drugs from Cambodia into Vietnam and seized nearly 30 kilogram of methamphetamine - an illicit drug known locally as ice; 9.2kg of ketamine; 20,000 ecstasy tablets and 5.27kg of heroin. … [Read more...] about Police in HCMC seize nearly 47 kg of drug while busting drug smuggling ring

— The amount of synthetic drugs seized in Ho Chi Minh City has been growing at the rate of more than 100 percent yearly on average during the past five years, with 1.42 metric tons of synthetic drugs and 339 kilograms of heroin being impounded in 2019, deputy director of the municipal Police Department Dinh Thanh Nhan said at Wednesday's conference on enhancing the effectiveness of drug prevention and control. … [Read more...] about Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News — September 10