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Thai woman caught with cocaine worth over $1mn at Vietnam airport

Thai woman caught with cocaine worth over $1mn at Vietnam airport

Thursday, July 31, 2014, 13:34 GMT+7

Customs officers at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City discovered 4kg of cocaine, worth over US$1 million, hidden in the luggage of a Thai woman who arrived at the airport on Wednesday.

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The drugs were found when customs officers were checking two backpacks belonging to the foreign woman, Pantimoong Narisara, 25, who flew in on Flight QR964 of Qatar Airways from Doha, the capital of Qatar, a country in the Middle East.

The exact weight of the cocaine is 3.97 kilogram, which is valued at about VND25 billion ($1.18 million). Airport security then handed the woman and the drugs over to the HCMC anti-drug police for investigation. The foreign woman told investigators that she had passed through many airports in several countries with the cocaine without detection before arriving in Vietnam. Last month, the Hanoi People’s Court sentenced a Thai woman and three Vietnamese people to death for transnational transport of more than 56kg of heroin in 2011-2012. Pornpirom Upapong, 32, and her three Vietnamese accessories Nguyen Thi Thuy Trang, 51, Le Xuan Phu, 30, and Phan Thi Lien, 45, received their sentences at a trial opening on June 12. In August 2013, another Thai woman was sentenced to death by the HCMC People’s Court for trafficking 2kg of drugs from Brazil to Vietnam.

Chaimongkol Suracha was arrested on October 1, 2012 at Tan Son Nhat International Airport after customs officers found four bags of white powder hidden in her luggage.

She arrived on a flight from Dubai, where she transferred after flying from Brazil.

Tests later confirmed that the powder was cocaine, which weighed 1.983 kg.

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