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Hanoi smashes trans-border drug smuggling via postal services

Hanoi’s customs officers in collaboration with forces from the Ministry of Public Security have busted a drug trafficking ring using express postal services.
Hanoi smashes trans-border drug smuggling via postal services ảnh 1Blue pills seized from the case (Photo: nld)

Hanoi (VNA) – Hanoi’s customs officers in collaboration with forces from the Ministryof Public Security have busted a drug trafficking ring using express postalservices.

As part of theraid, three suspects and 26,700 ecstasy pills were seized on November 15.

The drug ring wason the police’s radar as suspicions arose from a box imported from theNetherlands to Vietnam. After examination, officers found it contained nineplastic coffee bags, which were filled with blue pills. The pills were found tobe synthetic drugs.

When threesuspects, one from Ho Chi Minh City and two from Hanoi, came to retrieve thebox, they were arrested.

Furtherinvestigation is underway.-VNA 
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