Police in Ho Chi Minh City on July 27 handed three batches of goods containing a total of 17 kilos of Pseudoephedrine, a precursor substance to produce heroin, to the Division of Drug and Crime Control for further investigation.

The 714,000 USD worth of the substance was hidden in batches of gift being sent from Vietnam to Australia.
The city police secretly tracked the goods during July and have detected the substance three times, on July 8, 12 and 17.-VNA