HANOI, Jun 15 (NNN-VNA) – The Vietnamese police confirmed, two synthetic drug busts, seizing about 17,000 ecstasy and crystal meth tablets, it was reported yesterday.
The police of Vietnam’s northern Dien Bien province, have arrested one drug trafficker, confiscating 12,000 tablets of suspected synthetic drugs.
The male detainee, aged 33, was caught red-handed trading the drug in the province’s Dien Bien district, around noon on Tuesday.
He confessed to having bought the drugs in the border area between Vietnam and Laos, then transported them to Vietnam for consumption.
Meanwhile, police in the southern province of Binh Phuoc, yesterday morning seized over 5,000 ecstasy tablets and 25 plastic bags full of suspected crystal methamphetamine, weighing about two kg, after they secretly followed a 22-year-old male suspect home.
In Vietnam, drug trafficking carries a maximum penalty of death, for those convicted of smuggling over 600 grams of heroin, or more than 2.5 kg methamphetamine.
Making or trading 100 grams of heroin, or 300 grams of other illegal drugs, also faces the death penalty.– NNN-VNA
