Customs officers at Tan Son Nhat Airport in Ho Chi Minh City have seized a total of 5.1 kg of methamphetamine hidden in the luggage of two passengers, including a Chinese national, who arrived from Singapore. The airport customs office yesterday reported that it caught T.T.N, a 29-year-old passenger with Vietnamese nationality, carrying 3.1 kg of white powder packed in two plastic bags hidden in a suitcase when T.T.N flew from Singapore to the city on the SQ186 flight on October 19. After a test by the HCMC Police’s Criminal Technique Department showed that the substance was methamphetamine, anti-drug police detained T.T.N. Five days before, customers officers also discovered 2.04 kg of methamphetamine hidden in the checked baggage of 22-year-old Zhou Bingxue, a Chinese national who arrived from Singapore. Both T.T.N and Bingxue have been handed over to the city’s Drug Crime Investigation Police Department for investigation. Early this month, the city police busted a drug ring, detaining two Thai nationals, one of whom was caught carrying 2.06 kg of cocaine. Police caught 30-year-old Chaimongkol Suracha hiding the cocaine inside two photo albums on October 1 when she arrived at Tan Son Nhat Airport from Brazil. After Suracha was seized, the police set a trap by allowing her to hand the suitcase, with the drugs inside, to another Thai woman, Pakaporn Thatchun.

The police later seized Thatchun when she arrived at a hotel on Thu Khoa Huan Street, District 1, to take the drugs from Suracha.