Quang Tri: drug smuggling busted on Vietnam-Laos border
Saturday, 01:58, 12/03/2016
Authorities in the north-central province of Quang Tri on March 11 busted a transnational drug smuggling operation across the Vietnam-Laos border.
Quang Tri border guards, in coordination with police in Laos’ Savannakhet Province and relevant agencies arrested 24-year-old Sipasoth Anouvon, 36-year-old Keomalatsi and 44- year-old Khanphet Khambutsaba, all Lao nationals.
At the scene, officials confiscated 42,000 pills, four bricks of heroin and a Mazda car.
The suspects declared the drugs were being delivered to Vietnam from Laos . It was the largest drug smuggling case so far this year.
The three suspects were transferred to Lao police for further investigation.
The border guard and security forces in the Vietnamese provinces of Son La and Thanh Hoa and Laos’ Houaphan province caught a couple storing up to 23.5 kg of heroin in Houaphan on February 29.
The border guard and security forces in the Vietnamese provinces of Son La and Thanh Hoa and Laos’ Houaphan province caught a couple storing up to 23.5 kg of heroin in Houaphan on February 29.
Hanoi’s police and customs forces have stepped up their fight against drug crimes since the beginning of this year as international criminal rings increase drug transport to the capital by air.
Hanoi’s police and customs forces have stepped up their fight against drug crimes since the beginning of this year as international criminal rings increase drug transport to the capital by air.
VOV.VN - Police say one man involved in drug trafficking from China to Vietnam has been arrested following the discovery of 2kg of synthetic drugs concealed in packages at the Dan Tien Wharf.
VOV.VN - Police say one man involved in drug trafficking from China to Vietnam has been arrested following the discovery of 2kg of synthetic drugs concealed in packages at the Dan Tien Wharf.