HCM City police seize over 1 tonnes of meth, arrest two Taiwanese
The police of Ho Chi Minh City on April 19 brought to light a ring transporting over 1.1 tonnes of meth and started legal proceedings against two suspects, including two Taiwanese and a Vietnamese for their involvement.
The police of Ho Chi Minh City seized 1,110.26kg of meth in total (Photo: Plo)
HCM City (VNA) – The police of Ho Chi Minh City onApril 19 brought to light a ring transporting over 1.1 tonnes of meth and startedlegal proceedings against two suspects, including two Taiwanese and aVietnamese for their involvement.
These suspects were detained.
Earlier on April 12, through the traffic cameras, trafficpolice of Ward 5 detected three vehicles, including one seven-seat car drivenby Yeh Ching Wei, a Taiwanese born in 1986, and Chiang Wei Chih, anotherTaiwanese born in 1988, as passenger, as well as two vans violated parkingregulations.
The vehicles were towed to the police station where thepolice found that one of the vans carried a large number of abnormally heavymobile cabinet loudspeakers packed in carton packages without invoices.
Inside the loudspeakers were 590 tea packages, which containmeth weighing 606.02 kilograms.
Chiang later confessed that he and Yeh came to Vietnamthrough Tan Son Nhat International Airport. He said they got the direction froma Chinese to drive a van transporting electronics and handicraft products.
The police discovered that the consignment from Thailand wasreceived by Ngoc Van Transport company, which was ordered to deliver the goods tocustomers in an unknown hotel and to Bui Nguyen Huy Vu, born in 1981 andresiding in District 2 of HCM City, in Truong Sa street in District 3.
With the clue, the police caught Vu keeping 49.32kg of meth hiddenin five cabinet loudspeakers; 2.94kg of meth; 998.69 grams of Ketamine; one gunand four bullets.
On April 13, the police searched the storehouse of Ngoc Vancompany where they found 38 loudspeakers containing 10 tea packages each,seizing 451.98kg of meth.
In total, the city police seized 1,110.26kg of meth and998.68 grams of Ketamine.
They are working with the police in Ha Tinh and Nghe An provinces to clarifythe links between the newly-seized methand the 700kg of meth seized earlier in Nghe An, as the drug came from the sameplace and were packed in the same way.-VNA
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The police of Ho Chi Minh City seized 1,110.26kg of meth in total (Photo: Plo) 
