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Vietnam-Laos joint force busts drug ring, seizing 92 bricks of heroin

Vietnam-Laos joint force busts drug ring, seizing 92 bricks of heroin

Monday, December 15, 2014, 15:23 GMT+7

Vietnamese border guards and Laotian police officers have cracked down on a large transnational drug trafficking ring, arresting six people and seizing a large amount of heroin, a Vietnamese senior official said.>> Vietnam police indict 12 people who traded 763kg of heroin The joint force has seized 92 bricks of heroin weighing about 32 kg, two cars and 60,520 Thai Baht (US$1,844) in cash, said Senior Lieutenant Colonel Vo Trong Hai, commander of the Border Guard in the north-central province of Ha Tinh on Sunday. The drug trafficking case was uncovered at 11 pm on December 13, in a hamlet in the Laotian province of Polykhamsay, the official said. The detainees are aged 17 to 44, including two with residences in Thailand, one of American nationality, and another of Burmese nationality, while the rest are Laotians – including a woman. The joint force is expanding their investigation to track down others involved in the case.

Last month, the Ministry of Public Security’s investigators completed their investigation into a transnational drug trafficking case and indicted 12 people who had traded 2,861 bricks of heroin and 633 synthetic drug tablets.

The large-scale drug ring had bought drugs from Laos to northern Vietnam for sale in Hanoi and many provinces including Son La, Hoa Binh, Hanoi, Bac Ninh, Bac Giang and Lang Son, investigators said on Monday, after over a year of investigation.

The ring’s leader was Trang A Tang, 32, who resided in the northern province of Son La. Tang was detained along with his 11 accomplices on July 26, 2013 in Bac Ninh province, also in the northern region.

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