HA NOi — Ha Noi Police arrested Ngo Doan Phuc, 33, of Hoang Mai District, for allegedly illegally importing luxury cars from Laos and Cambodia for sale in Viet Nam. The police seized four cars, including a Hummer, Land Rover, Toyota Prado and Lexus, worth a total of VND6.3 billion (US$ 315,000). Initial investigations showed that Phuc had colluded with officials to take advantage of a policy that allows goods to be imported temporarily before being re-exported. Two face prosecution for drug trafficking HCM CITY — The Department of Investigative Police on Drug Crimes have proposed the Supreme People's Procuracy prosecute two people for drug trafficking. The married traffickers, Nguyen Thi Hai Anh and Nigerian Michael Ikenna Nduanya, lived in HCM City. Hai Anh was arrested last December when allegedly smuggling drugs from HCM City to China. Before that she is said to have smuggled drugs to Cambodia five times and received US$5,000.-VNS … [Read more...] about Man arrested for smuggling luxury cars
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Court puts away car smugglers for long time
Three men who got a luxury car smuggled from Cambodia receive long jail terms at their trial in Tây Ninh on Sept 18. VNA/VNS Photo Thanh Tân. Viet Nam News HCM CITY – Three people who got a luxury car smuggled from Cambodia to HCM City and forged its papers have received stiff prison sentences. The Tây Ninh Province People’s Court on Tuesday sentenced Nguyễn Đắc Tuyên, 41, of Hà Nội to 16 years in jail. Two other men, who conspired with him and abetted him in the criminal acts, Phùng Viết Đông, 38, and Phùng Tuấn Anh, 29, got 14 years apiece. They were charged with smuggling and forging seals and documents of official agencies. According to the indictment by the province People’s Procuracy, on April 20, 2015, law enforcement authorities caught the three in a Lexus RX350 with a fake Cambodian number plate as they were travelling from HCM City to Hà Nội. The trio confessed that Tuyên had asked Đông and Anh, brothers, to smuggle a luxury car at a low price from Cambodia … [Read more...] about Court puts away car smugglers for long time
Members of inter-provincial drug ring arrested in HCMC
HCM CITY (VNS) – HCM City’s Criminal Investigation Police arrested eight people suspected to be involved in inter-provincial drug smuggling ring, a source has said. Police have also seized 10kg of methamphetamine, some heroin, two luxury cars, VNĐ2.5 billion (US$119,000) and $52,000 in cash, three guns and 15 bullets. The arrests were the result of a joint investigation from the Ministry of Public Security, Lâm Đồng Province and city police, a HCM City senior police officer said on Monday. Among the arrested were the suspected ringleaders of the group, Nguyễn Duy Hùng, 46, who lived Thái Nguyên northern Province, and Nguyễn Tiến Khanh, 35, from Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu southern Province. Hùng, was imprisoned for seven years for drug possession and smuggling in 2003. In 2010, he became owner of an individual garage in Thái Nguyên Province that aimed to hide his drug smuggling. Police began the investigation in early 2016 when they arrested two drug transporters in HCM City, seizing two … [Read more...] about Members of inter-provincial drug ring arrested in HCMC