Hanoi police crack down on inter-provincial drug trafficking ring
Police of Nam Tu Liem district in Hanoi busted a drug trafficking ring in northern Vietnam involving 40 heroin bricks and 17,851 synthetic drug pills.
Nguyen Duc The and the seized heroin bricks (Photo: anninhthudo.vn)Hanoi (VNA) – Police of Nam Tu Liem district in Hanoi busted a drug trafficking ring in northern Vietnam involving 40 heroin bricks and 17,851 synthetic drug pills.
Ma Tuan Hung (31, Thai Nguyen city, Thai Nguyen province) alledgedly asked Trang A Trang (38, Mai Chau district, Hoa Binh province) and Song Thi Do (40, Van Ho district, Son La province) to make the short trip to Laos to buy drugs and sell them to him, police said on November 22.
Trang alledgely told Hung that each heroin brick, weighing about 350 grams, is priced at about 155 million VND (6,870 USD). Hung agreed to buy heroin and planned to receive the drugs on Thang Long Avenue in Nam Tu Liem district.
On October 29, 2016, Trang and Do drove a car from Hoa Binh to Hanoi to hand over the heroin to Hung. When they arrived in Thang Long Avenue, they were stopped by local police.
Police found 20 heroin bricks weighing a total of 7kg hidden in the car.
All three were taken into custody.
The ring earlier had transported drugs through Son La, Hoa Binh, Hanoi, Thai Nguyen and Hai Phong city. Police have launched criminal proceedings against them.
This drug trafficking ring was uncovered thanks to the investigation of Nguyen Duc The, another drug trafficker.
The, 41, was detained in September while transporting 20 heroin bricks and more than 17,000 synthetic drug pills by coach.
Police in Nam Tu Liem district are continuing the investigation.-VNA
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