Ho Chi Minh City market management officers caught a truck driver red-handed on Thursday when it was transporting more than 400,000 children’s toy products with dubious origins.

The driver, Thach Chanh Da, confessed to the officers that he had been hired to transport the toys from District 12 to Cho Lon Bus Station in District 6, where many people of Chinese origin live.

Cho Lon is home to Binh Tay market from which many children’s toys, mostly made in China, are re-distributed to other markets and stores across the city and neighboring localities on a daily basis.

The driver also failed to show any papers, receipts, and import certificates of the toys, officers said.

The toys are of many different types, but none of them bear the necessary CR (Conformity to Regulation) stamp or a Vietnamese label, as required.

Some of the products smell unpleasant, apparently made of plastic waste.

Around 30,000 units of the toys are suspected to contain hazardous chemicals that are harmful to children if inhaled.

Da asserted that he was only a hired driver, and the real owners of the toys were supposed to pick up the goods at the Cho Lon bus station.

All of the toys were confiscated by the market management agency to investigate their origins and transporting process.