HANOI, Mar 11 (NNN-VNA) – Police of northern Vietnam’s Dien Bien province, arrested four drug smugglers and seized over 220,000 pills of synthetic drugs, weighing about 21.5 kg in total, it was reported yesterday.
Two smugglers were caught red-handed, transporting some 180,000 pills or 16.7 kg of drugs, in the locality. They confessed that they were hired to transport the amount for a wage of 70 million Vietnamese dongs (nearly 3,100 U.S. dollars).
Further investigating the case, competent authorities arrested two other members of the ring, seizing some 48,000 pills or 4.8 kg of synthetic drugs. All the detainees were from Dien Bien and aged between 19 and 21 years old, according to the report.
According to Vietnamese law, those convicted of smuggling over 600 grams of heroin or more than 2.5 kg of methamphetamine are punishable by death.
Making or trading 100 grams of heroin or 300 grams of other illegal drugs also faces the death penalty.– NNN-VNA
