Tay Ninh Province police on April 30 busted a drug trafficking ring operating between Cambodia and Viet Nam, arresting three traffickers and seizing 21 kilos of heroin.

Tay Ninh Province police on April 30 busted a drug trafficking ring operating between Cambodia and Viet Nam, arresting three traffickers and seizing 21 kilos of heroin. 

Nguyen Tung Anh, 17, of Hai Duong Province, and Pham Van Thuan, 24, of Hai Phong City, were caught illegally transporting 13,031 tablets of heroin, weighing a total of four kilos.

Anh and Thuan said that they had been hired for VNĐ10 million (US$439) each by a Cambodian man to carry heroin from Svay Rieng Province’s Bavet City to the Moc Bai International Border Gate.

Later that day, Vietnamese and Cambodian police officers confiscated an additional 17 kilos of heroin, packed in 50 plastic bags at Thien An Hotel in Bavet City.

Nguyen Manh Tien, 19, from Quang Ninh Province’s Dong Trieu District, was arrested on May 1 for collaborating with Anh and Thuan in trafficking drugs to Viet Nam.

Police are continuing their investigation. 

VNS