Vietnamese man in court for trafficking 31kg of drugs
ANTI-DRUG police sent a Vietnamese man to the Phnom Penh Municipal Court onThursday for allegedly trafficking in 31kg of drugs. He was arrested on Monday in Daun Penh district.
In Vietnam, local police arrested six Vietnamese suspects for allegedly trafficking in a total of 31kg of drugs from Cambodia.
In Song, the deputy director of the Anti-Drug Department, on Thursday identified the Vietnamese national as Nguyen Ngoc Qui.
He said police are investigating whether Qui is linked to the drug trafficking case in Vietnam.
“Vietnamese authorities also arrested suspects for trafficking 31kg of drugs. But we cannot say if they are part of the same group,” Song said.
He said police confiscated ketamine, methamphetamine, a car and phone from Qui on Monday in Daun Penh district’s Chaktomuk commune.
Vietnamese media reported on Tuesday that 30 Vietnamese border officials in An Giang Province, which borders Cambodia’s Takeo province, arrested three Vietnamese nationals on June 13. They found 12kg of methamphetamine in their possession.
Wi t h t h e i n f o r mat i o n obtained from the three suspects, Vietnamese authorities arrested three more suspects and confiscated another 19kg of methamphetamine on Monday. The suspects told authorities they brought the drugs from Cambodia through Takeo province.
Meas Vyrith, the secretarygeneral of the National Authority for Combating Drugs (NACD), told The Post on Thursday that Vietnamese police had informed Cambodian officials about the matter.
He said Vietnamese officials would send their findings to Cambodia to assist in future investigations.
“When they finish questioning those suspects and send the information to us, we will search for their syndicate members in Cambodia,” Vyrith said.