Vietnam court sentences 27 to death for drug trafficking
Sunday, December 29, 2024, 18:04 GMT+7
The Ho Chi Minh City People’s court on Friday sentenced 27 defendants, including drug lord Vu Hoang Oanh, aka Oanh Ha, to death for their involvement in a ring trafficking over 626 kilograms of drugs from Cambodia to Vietnam.
Six other defendants were sentenced to life in prison and two others got a jail term of 20 years each.
Between 2019 and 2022, Oanh Ha organized a narcotics smuggling ring that transported drugs from Cambodia for distribution in Ho Chi Minh City, Hai Phong City, Nam Dinh Province, Hanoi, and surrounding areas.
She hired Nguyen Van Nam to bring the drugs from Phnom Penh to Vietnam for distribution to her customers.
In Ho Chi Minh City, she employed Nguyen Anh Bao Quoc to receive the drugs from Nguyen Duy Khanh or collect gearboxes containing the narcotics and deliver them to Nam and clients in the city and nearby regions.
Oanh Ha instructed Nam to receive the drugs from Quoc or collect gearboxes containing the narcotics, then transport them to Hai Phong for storage or delivery in the city, Nam Dinh, Hanoi, and other provinces.
Together, they smuggled 129 gearboxes filled with drugs from Cambodia into Vietnam.
To avoid detection, they communicated using the Signal app, along with U.S. and Cambodian mobile phone numbers, and utilized a bank account to receive payments totaling approximately VND1.4 trillion (US$55 million).
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