Quang Tri border guards uncover synthetic drug trafficking cases
Border guards in the central border province of Quang Tri have discovered two drug trafficking cases from Laos to Vietnam since the beginning of December.
Police are questioning Mai Van Nguyen (Source: laodong.vn)
Quang Tri (VNA) – Border guards in the central borderprovince of Quang Tri have discovered two drug trafficking cases from Laos toVietnam since the beginning of December.
On December 12, the drug squad of the Quang Tri border guard force andforces at the Lao Bao international border gate together caught red-handed twodrug traffickers, namely Mai Van Nguyen, born in 1979, and Dinh Huu Tinh, bornin 1992, from Quang Binh, seizing 2,369 synthetic drugs.
On December 8, the forces surprised Pham Van Dung, born in 1993,residing in Lao Bao town for transporting 615 pink synthetic drugs. Dungconfessed that he bought the drugs in Laos to sell for drug addicts in Lao Baotown.
Further investigations are underway to handle these cases in accordancewith legal regulations.
Localauthorities say that the number of ethnic minority juveniles engaging in drugtrafficking at the Vietnamese-Lao border in Quang Tri has increased sharplyover the last five years.
They also saythat efforts to fight drug trafficking in the area have been hampered by achange in rules that determines punishment, including detention, on thenarcotics content of the drugs seized.
This has createda loophole that traffickers exploit by smuggling reduced quantities ofnarcotics each time, but increasing the number of cross-border trips.
Vietnam’s Quang Trị and Laos’ Savannakhet provinces share a border that is156km long, with the Lao Bao-Densavan border gate connecting the East-WestEconomic Corridor.
Drugtraffickers are taking advantage of the area’s topography to hire Vietnameseimmigrants to set up drug trafficking rings for smuggling drugs fromSavannakhet into Quang Tri through the Lao Bao international border gate.-VNA
More and more drug traffickers have turned to aviation to transport drugs in response to tighter security measures of local customs and police, officials said.
Local authorities say that the number of ethnic minority juveniles engaging in drug trafficking at the Vietnamese-Lao border in the central province of Quang Tri has increased sharply over the last five years.
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Police are questioning Mai Van Nguyen (Source: laodong.vn) 
