A large-scale drugs trafficking ring which transported narcotics from Cambodia to Ho Chi Minh City has been smashed by the city’s police following a three-month investigation.

A man from Hanoi was sentenced to death for trafficking up to 3kg of heroin by the Thanh Hoa Court on Tuesday.

Police in Haiphong have successfully arrested a Vietnamese woman suspected of being the gang leader of an international drug trafficking ring between the northern port city and the Republic of Korea (RoK).

The People’s Court of Ho Chi Minh City on October 7 sentenced eight defendants to death and another to life imprisonment for trafficking 379 heroin bricks weighing over 132kg and 55kg of methamphetamine.

Police in the northern border province of Lao Cai on August 6 arrested two men for smuggling ten bricks of heroin (about 3.5 kg).

Police in the northern mountain province of Lai Chau have busted 151 drug related cases in the first six months of this year.

Police of Hanoi’s Long Bien district said on July 31 that they have detained three people for illegal drug transportation and trading.

In the first five months of this year, police discovered more than 10,200 cases related to drugs trafficking.

A Laotian man was arrested by border guards in Thanh Hoa province after being caught illegally smuggling drugs across the border from Laos on June 2.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Six members of a transnational drug smuggling ring received the death sentence on Thursday in northern Quang Ninh Province.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Two drug traffickers were sentenced to 20 years imprisonment each for transporting 4,000 tablets of ecstasy from the northern mountainous province of Son La to Hanoi,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Two drug traffickers were arrested early this week while they attempted to ship drugs to the South.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Police have apprehended several people across the country for illegal possession and transportation of drugs over the past few days.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The death penalty was submitted on Thursday by the People’s Procuracy of Hoa Binh Province against 11 defendants for “illegally trading and storing drugs” as part of a massive trans-national heroin trafficking operation.

Japan is appreciative of Vietnam’s rapid response and strict settlement of those involved in the alleged graft scandal of the Japan Transportation Consultants, Inc. (JTC).

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