Nguyen Hang Ni in court. — VNA/VNS Photo Thanh Tan

Nguyen Hang Ni, from Phu Nhuan District, HCM City, admitted that at the beginning of last year, she began contacting a man named Alex via Zalo. The man claimed to be from Africa.
Ni used Google translate to communicate with the man.

Alex hired Ni to transport drugs, then send them from Vietnam to Hong Kong. Ni would receive a payment of US$500-1,000 each time.

On July 15 last year, Alex told Ni to go to No 275C on Pham Ngu Lao Road, District 1 in HCM City, to receive the drugs.

Ni arrived at the address on July 17 and was caught by police.

The police had been tipped off because at 4pm on July 17, customs officers at Moc Bai International Border Gate checked the luggage of a passenger named Hang Quoc Khanh, who was travelling from Cambodia to Vietnam.

The officers discovered 16 plastic bags containing suspected narcotics and took Khanh in for questioning.

Khanh told the officers that he was an assistant working for the Danh Danh Express Bus Company in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

The company was ordered to transport the goods and Khanh was assigned to take the bags to Pham Ngu Lao Road to a woman named Ni.

The bags were found to contain 8kg of methamphetamine. — VNS

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