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Thanh Hoa police seize 60 bricks of heroin

Police from the north central province of Thanh Hoa arrested two people for trafficking 60 bricks of heroin weighing nearly 20kg on May 21.
Thanh Hoa police seize 60 bricks of heroin ảnh 1Bricks of heroin (Illustrative image. Source: VNA)

Thanh Hoa (VNA) – Police from the northcentral province of Thanh Hoa arrested two people for trafficking 60 bricks ofheroin weighing nearly 20kg on May 21.

The traffickers include Ha Ba Cho, born in 1993,from the central province of Nghe An, and Hoang Van Xuan, born in 1987, fromthe northern province of Thai Nguyen.

The police also seized four mobile phones, 2 million VND(87.9 USD) in cash and other relevant objects.

The two traffickers confessed that they took thedrugs from a stranger at the Vietnam-Laos border area to sell at home.

Further investigation is underway.

Drug-trafficking at Vietnam’s borders is a majorissue that increasingly concerns law enforcement officers.

Nearly 21,471 drug-trafficking cases were reported in 2017,up 14.5 percent from 2016, according to a report on collaborationbetween agencies including the Police General Department, the GeneralDepartment of Vietnam Customs, Vietnam Border Guard High Command and VietnamCoast Guard.

Some 32,950 suspects were detained, a13.6 percent increase over 2016’s figure.

Statistics from Vietnam Border Guard showedthat the amount of synthetic drugs and marijuana seized last yearthrough the border of Vietnam and Laos respectively increased seven times andtwice compared with 2016.-VNA
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