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Police in Ho Chi Minh City raided three drug trafficking rings in the first two months of 2021 and seized 217 kilogrammes of different drugs.

The Drug Crime Investigation Police Department under the Ministry of Public Security recently announced that it, together with relevant agencies, had busted three major drug trafficking rings.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has ordered ministries, agencies and provincial and municipal people’s committees to carry out the action month for drug prevention in June.

Police busted many drug trafficking rings in the first quarter of 2019, seizing over 6 tonnes of drugs – higher than the amount seized last year and tripling that in 2017.

Tan Son Nhat Airport customs officers in Ho Chi Minh City have found 2.3kg of marijuana products hidden in a goods consignment sent from California, the US, to Vietnam.

Police in the northern border province of Son La on October 31 caught red-handed two man smuggling drugs in Cuong Muong hamlet, Muong Chum commune, Muong La district.

The Ministry of Public Security (MoPS) and representatives of 33 southern provinces and cities reviewed the anti-drug efforts over the first six months of 2018 on July 16, stressing the need for stronger actions to fight drug-related crimes that remain complicated nationwide.

The Ministry of Public Security (MPS) launched many campaigns to crack down on crimes in the first half of 2018, thus uncovering a number of transnational drug trafficking rings, MPS Minister Sen. Lt. Gen. To Lam said on July 2.

A meeting was held in the central city of Da Nang on December 8 to review the outcomes of a drug crime communication and crackdown campaign along Vietnam-China border.

A Lao man carrying 200 synthetic drug pills and three grammes of heroin was arrested in Na Meo commune, Quan Son district, the central province of Thanh Hoa on April 9.