Showing posts with label heroin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label heroin. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
22 years for Taiwanese heroin smuggler in Cambodia
Cambodian court has sentenced a Taiwanese man to 22 years in jail for trying to smuggle heroin out of the country.Judge Chhay Kong at Phnom Penh Municipal Court says he sentenced Liao Ichun after finding him guilty of trying to smuggle 240 grams of the drug into Taiwan.A number of Taiwanese nationals have been detained and jailed for trying to smuggle heroin through the airport in the Cambodian capital over the past year.Although drug arrests have increased, Cambodia is becoming an increasingly popular trafficking point for methamphetamine and heroin, particularly since Thailand toughened its stance on illegal drugs in 2002.
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Vietnam to execute two Taiwanese heroin traffickers
Hanoi (dpa) - A court in southern Vietnam sentenced two Taiwanese men to death for their involvement in an international heroin trafficking ring, local media reported Friday.
The People's Court of An Giang province, 190 kilometres south-west of Ho Chi Minh City, handed death sentences to Wei Chun Lung and Lee Chih Wen at a two-day trial that ended Thursday, the People's Police newspaper said.
The court also sentenced two Vietnamese accomplices, Phan Thi Cam Tu and Huynh Thi Anh, to 20 and 18 years in prison.
According to the court's indictment, the ring was uncovered on May 20, 2007 when Anh was arrested en route from Cambodia to Ho Chi Minh City with 1.2 kilograms of heroin in her luggage.
The province's anti-narcotics force later arrested other members and found more heroin at the Ho Chi Minh City hotel room of ring leader Lee, People's Police said.
The group confessed to having brought 2.5 kilograms of heroin from Cambodia into Vietnam. They said the heroin was then illegally transported to Taiwan.
Trafficking or transporting 600 grams or more of heroin is punishable by death in Vietnam.
The communist country has sentenced at least 27 people to death this year, including 13 death sentences for drug crimes. Three of the death sentences were handed to foreigners.
In March, a court in Ho Chi Minh City sentenced an Australian woman of Vietnamese origin to death for smuggling heroin. Jasmine Luong, 34, was arrested in February last year when she was trying to bring 1.4 kilograms of heroin to Sydney.
The People's Court of An Giang province, 190 kilometres south-west of Ho Chi Minh City, handed death sentences to Wei Chun Lung and Lee Chih Wen at a two-day trial that ended Thursday, the People's Police newspaper said.
The court also sentenced two Vietnamese accomplices, Phan Thi Cam Tu and Huynh Thi Anh, to 20 and 18 years in prison.
According to the court's indictment, the ring was uncovered on May 20, 2007 when Anh was arrested en route from Cambodia to Ho Chi Minh City with 1.2 kilograms of heroin in her luggage.
The province's anti-narcotics force later arrested other members and found more heroin at the Ho Chi Minh City hotel room of ring leader Lee, People's Police said.
The group confessed to having brought 2.5 kilograms of heroin from Cambodia into Vietnam. They said the heroin was then illegally transported to Taiwan.
Trafficking or transporting 600 grams or more of heroin is punishable by death in Vietnam.
The communist country has sentenced at least 27 people to death this year, including 13 death sentences for drug crimes. Three of the death sentences were handed to foreigners.
In March, a court in Ho Chi Minh City sentenced an Australian woman of Vietnamese origin to death for smuggling heroin. Jasmine Luong, 34, was arrested in February last year when she was trying to bring 1.4 kilograms of heroin to Sydney.
Friday, June 6, 2008
Vietnam heroin charges for Victorian woman
A VICTORIAN woman has been arrested in southern Vietnam after she collapsed with heroin in her stomach, state media reported.
Tran Thi Ngoc Dung, 35, was leaving her hotel in Ho Chi Minh City on her way to a flight home on Sunday when she fell unconscious and was rushed to hospital, Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper said.
Doctors found she had two condoms full of heroin in her stomach and one of them had burst, the paper said.
Ms Dung was still in the hospital but had been put under arrest.
It was unclear how much heroin she was carrying.
Vietnam has some of the world's harshest drug laws.
Possession of 600g or more of heroin is punishable by death.
About a dozen Vietnamese-Australians have been in court in Vietnam for heroin trafficking in recent years.
At least four have had their death sentences commuted because of lobbying by the Australian Government.
Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said yesterday: "The Australian Consulate-General in Ho Chi Minh City is seeking to confirm media reports that the woman will be arrested on drug charges
Tran Thi Ngoc Dung, 35, was leaving her hotel in Ho Chi Minh City on her way to a flight home on Sunday when she fell unconscious and was rushed to hospital, Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper said.
Doctors found she had two condoms full of heroin in her stomach and one of them had burst, the paper said.
Ms Dung was still in the hospital but had been put under arrest.
It was unclear how much heroin she was carrying.
Vietnam has some of the world's harshest drug laws.
Possession of 600g or more of heroin is punishable by death.
About a dozen Vietnamese-Australians have been in court in Vietnam for heroin trafficking in recent years.
At least four have had their death sentences commuted because of lobbying by the Australian Government.
Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said yesterday: "The Australian Consulate-General in Ho Chi Minh City is seeking to confirm media reports that the woman will be arrested on drug charges
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