The drugs and weapon seized from the ring recently uncovered in HCM City (Source: VNA) HCM City (VNA) – A ring trafficking drugs fromCambodia to Ho Chi Minh City has been uncovered by the city’s police after morethan four months of investigation.
Police said on September 11 that they hadarrested seven persons born between 1976 and 1996 involved in the ring, withall of them also drug users. Thirty-five kilogrammes of different kinds ofdrugs, along with two guns and 21 bullets, had been seized.
The ring hired two apartments in Thu Ducdistrict and District 8 to cover their activities. They trafficked drugs fromCambodia to HCM City through the vicinity of Moc Bai Border Gate in thesouthern province of Tay Ninh.
Further investigation into the ring is underway.
At a ministerial meeting on drug crime combat inHanoi on September 10, Colonel Vu Van Hau, deputy head of the police departmentfor drug crime investigation under the Ministry of Public Security, cited dataof the UNODC as showing that the number of methamphetamine trafficking casesuncovered in East and Southeast Asia rose 8-fold between 2007 and 2017,reaching 82 tonnes and accounting for 45 percent of all such cases around theglobe. The seized meth in the region was estimated at 116 tonnes in 2018.
He also pointed out the complicated drugsituation in Vietnam in recent years. So far this year, the country hasuncovered more than 13,000 drug cases, detained over 20,000 persons involved,and seized nearly 5 tonnes and over 500,000 pills of synthetic drugs, more than750kg of heroin and 571kg of dried marijuana./.
VNA
