Police of Ho Chi Minh City have launched investigation into 22 cases involving 65 persons for drug-related charges and dealt with 12 persons involved in administrative violations, while probing into some flight attendants’ smuggling of drugs from France to Tan Son Nhat Airport on March 16.
The Narcotics Investigation Police Department under the Ministry of Public Security held a meeting in Hanoi on April 6 to review the operation of the Safe Mekong Coordination Centre (SMCC), which has been set up in all countries in the Mekong sub-region as part of their joint efforts to fight drug trafficking.
The Customs Department of the central province of Quang Tri said on March 11 that they had coordinated with the provincial police and border guard to break up a drug trafficking ring from Laos to Vietnam.
Drug prevention and control activities must be put under the leadership and direction of the Party Committees and administration at all levels, especially the grassroots level, with the People’s Public Security force playing the key role but not the only force in the work, said Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh at an online conference on drug prevention and control on March 10.
The Border Guard Command in the central province of Ha Tinh announced that its forces and local agencies on March 8 caught a Lao national red-handed trafficking two kilos of Methamphetamine from Laos to Vietnam.
Cambodian authorities have seized 884 kg of narcotics in a single raid in the coastal province of Preah Sihanouk, a provincial military police officer said on December 12.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has sent a letter of commendation to the Ministry of Public Security’s Drug Crime Investigation Police Department, the Technical Department and the ministry’s overseas representative agency for smashing a major drug trafficking ring.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and India held their 9th Senior Officials Meeting on Transnational Crimes (SOMTC) in a virtual form on July 20, according to the Indian Foreign Ministry.
Anti-drug forces of East and Southeast Asian nations seized over 1 billion meth tablets in 2021, according to statistics announced by the United Nations Office on Drug and Crimes (UNODC) on May 30.
The State budget revenue from export and import reached 107.3 trillion VND (nearly 4.7 billion USD) in the first quarter of 2022, up 22.44 percent year on year.
The General Department of Vietnam Customs will participate in the Operation Mekong Dragon IV, a joint regional operation against drug and wildlife trafficking, from April 15 to September 15 this year, the department has announced.
Border guards in the northern province of Lao Cai have coordinated with local police force to arrest three people who were illegally transporting 40 bricks (about 13.6kg) of heroin.
The 7th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Drug Matters (AMMD) officially opened and convened the plenary session via videoconference on October 14 under the chair of Cambodia.
Border guards in the central province of Quang Tri have busted a trans-border drug trafficking ring from Laos to Vietnam, seizing 46kg of crystal meth, the provincial Border Guard Command announced on August 23.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on July 26 underlined that the fight against drug trafficking is far from over, more than five years since the launch of his “war on drugs”.
Police in the northern border province of Dien Bien and relevant agencies caught red-handed two drug smugglers in Muong Nha commune of Dien Bien district on July 13.
The Border Guard Command of central Quang Tri province said on June 21 that they have arrested a Lao man when he was en route to illegally transport 38,000 pills of synthetic drugs into Vietnam.
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