Kenyan woman held for carrying over 2kg of drugs at Vietnam airport
Tuesday, July 18, 2023, 16:40 GMT+7
Police in Ho Chi Minh City arrested a Kenyan woman after more than 2.3 kilograms of drugs were found hidden in her luggage upon her arrival at Tan Son Nhat International Airport last week.
M.M.N., 35, of Kenyan nationality, was detained for investigation after the airport’s baggage scanning staff discovered two bags of cocaine concealed in her suitcase on July 14 evening, police reported on Monday.
These bags, weighing 2.34 kilograms in total, were removed from the top and bottom parts of the suitcase, police officers said.
The foreign woman departed from Kenya’s Nairobi International Airport and got through two more international airports, Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and Doha in Qatar, before touching down at Tan Son Nhat in Ho Chi Minh City, investigators said.
Local police said they are cooperating with relevant agencies to expand their probe into the transnational drug trafficking case.
According to the Vietnamese Penal Code, the illegal transport of narcotics is punishable by prison terms from two to 20 years, a life sentence, or the death penalty, depending on the severity of each violation.
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