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Trans-national drug traffickers arrested in HCM City

Police have arrested three Taiwanese and one Chinese suspects for illegal transporting 500kg of Ketamine meth, the most expensive in the drug market.
Trans-national drug traffickers arrested in HCM City ảnh 1Liu Ming Yang (centre), head of the trans-national drug trafficking ring, and three others have been arrested in HCM City (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – Policehave arrested three Taiwanese and one Chinese suspects for illegal transporting500kg of Ketamine meth, the most expensive in the drug market.

The four are Liu Ming Yang (bornin 1985), Jhu Minh Jyun (born in 1987), Nguyen Thi Thu Van (born in 1983) fromTaiwan, and Su Jia Mei (born in 1986) from China. They were arrested indifferent places in Ho Chi Minh City on May 11.

During the raids, the policeseized 500kg of meth, one car, four packaging machines and other exhibits.

According to the police, Liu isthe head of the trans-national drug trafficking ring that transported drugs toVietnam and camouflaged in other goods before shipping to a third country bysea.

Liu asked Jhu to hire a warehousein Binh Tan district, which was then moved to Binh Chanh district. Jhu wasarrested while using a car to transport the drugs to the new warehouse. Van, Jhu’sgirl friend, and Su, the interpreter of Jhu, assisted him in hiring thewarehouse.

The case is under furtherinvestigation.

Meanwhile, the border guard forcein the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien also arrested two suspectstransporting eight bricks of heroin (nearly 3kgs).

The duo, Va A Chu (born in 1994)and Va A Nu (born in 2000), both residing in Ka Hau hamlet, Na U commune, DienBien district of Dien Bien province, confessed that they received the drugsfrom a man called Phing in Phongsaly province of Laos to deliver to an unknownman at a bus station in Dien Bien for 40 million VND.

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