December 23, 2011
Cao Vu Cuong (L), a former police officer, was sentenced to seven years for taking part in a luxury car smuggling ring. (Photo: VnExpress) The Hanoi People’s Court sentenced a former police officer to seven years in jail for taking part in a luxury car smuggling ring, online newspaper VnExpress reported. Cao Vu Cuong, the [...]
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November 12, 2011
African drug smugglers shift carriers to avoid detection Preyanooch Phuttharaksa, a 22-year-old Thai student, was arrested on October 29 at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport for allegedly smuggling more than three kilograms of methamphetamine into Vietnam Everything went smoothly for Preyanooch Phuttharaksa on arrival at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan [...]
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July 30, 2011
Tran Ha Duy (L) and her sister Tran Ha Tien have been arrested for their alleged involvement in an African-led drug trafficking ring African drug smuggling rings are using Vietnamese female students as traffickers instead of middle-aged women as they did earlier, a senior narcotics police officer has warned. Colonel Le Thanh Liem, deputy chief [...]
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July 3, 2011
Drug addicts works as carpenters at a rehab center in northern Vietnam. Vietnam aims to reduce by around a third the number of drug addicts nationwide by 2010 and improve rehabilitation services, the government said in a statement on Monday, June 27. By late 2010, the country had a total of more than 170,000 drug [...]
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May 19, 2011
Police in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang said Tuesday they had busted a smuggling ring that transported diesel oil from Thailand to Vietnam by boat. Som Chai, a Thai national, and his Vietnamese wife Nguyen Thi Linh Phuong were arrested last week for buying oil worth VND70 billion (US$3.4 million) from Thailand [...]
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April 21, 2011
Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court on Tuesday sentenced the mastermind of a timber smuggling operation to 16 years in jail. Nguyen Van Hoa, deputy director of Kim Loi Limited Company based in neighboring Binh Duong Province, along with seven other defendants were found guilty of smuggling 93 containers of protected timber to China. [...]
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March 28, 2011
Model and actor Vinh Thuy Well-known male model and actor Le Xuan Vinh Thuy has been placed under investigation for suspected involvement in a smuggling case discovered by Vietnamese police last year. Thuy, 23, and two of his accomplices are now being investigated on charges of conducting illegal business activities, a source close to the [...]
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March 9, 2011
Smuggled goods are carried along a street in Ha Tinh Province. In 1997, the government announced the launch of a national program against smuggling. Prior to that, if you wanted to buy smuggled goods, you needed to know someone. Despite the government “crackdown,” smuggling has grown at an alarming rate. The only people who seem [...]
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February 2, 2010
An increasing amount of drugs are being smuggled into Vietnam and the number of foreign criminals involved in such cases rose dramatically in 2009, the Ministry of Public Security reported. LookAtVietnam – An increasing amount of drugs are being smuggled into Vietnam and the number of foreign criminals involved in such cases rose dramatically in [...]
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January 31, 2010
An increasing amount of drugs are being smuggled into Vietnam and the number of foreign criminals involved in such cases rose dramatically in 2009, the Ministry of Public Security has reported. Among the foreigners, the portion of Africans was disproportionately high, said the ministry.Increasing numbers of Africans were staying in Vietnam illegally or with overstayed [...]
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