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City upholds life to Malaysian female drug trafficker

City upholds life to Malaysian female drug trafficker

Tuesday, January 07, 2014, 17:34 GMT+7

The Supreme People’s Court in Ho Chi Minh City on Monday upheld the life sentence of a Malaysian woman who was caught hiding more than 1.6 kg of drugs in a suitcase at Tan Son Nhat airport last year.

>> 89 defendants tried for trafficking 32,000 bricks of heroin >> Five get death for smuggling 90 kg of heroin The court rejected the appeal of the woman, Parameswary Amutha G Letchumanan, 52, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of illegally transporting drugs. There is no grounds to give the convicted any commutation, the court said. According to the indictment, in July 2012, Parameswary was asked by one of her friends, Mali Rita, to take a tour to South Africa and bring a suitcase back to Malaysia for her after the tour ended. Mali said she would pay all expenses related to the trip and also offer Parameswary US$100 as a tip. Parameswary agreed and Mali later gave Parameswary Amutha G Letchumanan a return ticket and US$300 as expenses. On July 24, 2012, Parameswary arrived in Johannesburg, South Africa, and was picked up by an unknown man of African descent who later took her to a hotel, where she stayed for six days. After that, the man handed a suitcase to her, asking her to bring it back to Malaysia for Mali.    On August 3, she took a flight from South Africa to Malaysia, with a transit in Vietnam. On the evening of August 4, 2012, customs officers at Tan Son Nhat Airport in Ho Chi Minh City found a suitcase left unowned. At 11 pm that day, Parameswary contacted the airport customs to receive the suitcase, saying the suitcase was her lost luggage. As the woman showed signs of suspicions, customs officered opened that suitcase for examination and discovered two small plastic bags of methamphetamine weighing 1.64 kg.

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