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The northern provincial Customs Department, which detected and seized 11 such maps at the Kim Le Hoa Hotel in Van Lang District, has reported its discovery to local police and the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

All the maps are brand new and measure 52 x 75 cm. Five are described in Chinese and the others are displayed in both Chinese and English.

The hotel’s deputy director, a native of the Chinese province of Guangdong whose Vietnamese name is Chung Thanh, admitted to customs officers that some hotel staff members had bought the maps in China and brought them into Vietnam via the Tan Thanh border gate, VietNamNet reported.

Those employees had put the printed matters in their handbags and did not report them to customs officers, Thanh said.

The hotel has sold three of the maps to clients since April, Thanh said. He admitted that such an act violated the law of Vietnam but he affirmed that the hotel had not used the maps for any other purposes, the newswire quoted the man as saying.

Hoang Khanh Hoa, deputy head of the department, said the hotel had illegally imported, stored and circulated incorrect maps that were manufactured by China.

These maps are related to politics and national security of the countries involved, particularly at this time, when new, complex developments have been seen in the disputes over territorial sovereignty in the East Sea, Hoa said.

Therefore, the provincial customs department has referred the case to local police for investigation and handling in accordance with the laws of Vietnam, he said.

VietNamNet/Tuoi Tre