Authorities of the northern border province of Quang Ninh seized two Vietnamese and one Chinese in three cross-border drug trafficking cases in Dan Tien pier, Mong Cai city on March 19 and 20.

Huang Xian Hua from Chinese was arrested for holding 22 grammes of drugs in a coach.

At 11 p.m. on March 20, local authorities arrested 39-year-old Dinh Van Xuan, a resident in Song Khoai commune, Quang Yen town. He was trying to carry a kilogramme of methamphetamine to Dongxing, Guangxi in China . He said he was paid 10 million VND (448.50 USD) to transport the drugs.

At 10:30 p.m., another Vietnamese national, Tran Thi Lua from Nam Dinh province’s Nghia Phu commune, Nghia Hung district, was captured by the team. She was hired to transport 50 grammes of methamphetamine from Dongxing to Quan Toan in Hai Phong for 6.5 million VND (291.50 USD).

Another drug trafficking case was detected by the team at 9 p.m. on March 19. They apprehended Huang Xian Hua, born in 1980 in Guangxi province after finding he held 22 grammes of drugs in a coach. The Chinese man admitted that he bought the drugs for personal use.

The Vietnamese authorities also seized Huang Xian Hua’s electronic scale, passport, mobile phone and 50 plastic bags.

Border soldiers hailed for smashing two Laos–Vietnam drug rings

Border soldiers in Quang Tri, Son La and Thanh Hoa provinces have been applauded for partnering with Lao police to smash two massive drug smuggling rings operating between Laos and Vietnam.

A letter of praise signed by Deputy Defence Minister Sen. Lieut. Gen Nguyen Thanh Cung on March 21 said on March 11-12, the Department of Drug and Crime Prevention along with border soldiers from Quang Tri, Son La and Thanh Hoa provinces worked closely with the security forces of Lao’s Houaphane and Savannakhet provinces and the Lao Police Department of Drug Preventio to arrest seven smugglers and confiscate 42,000 methamphetamine pills, 16kg of “ice,” also known as crystal meth, and 24 bars of heroin.

New developments will continue to be made in the fight against drugs along border areas, it said, adding that the Party Central Committee’s Military Commission and the Defence Ministry have asked drug and crime combat forces and border soldiers to liaise with units at home and abroad to keep a close watch on the local situation to drive back crime in general and drug crime in particular.

VNA