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Indian arrested at Tan Son Nhat airport for smuggling over 700 diamonds

The diamonds include both natural and man-made ones

Police in Ho Chi Minh City caught an Indian man red-handed unlawfully transporting more than 700 diamonds worth dozens of billions of Vietnamese dong via Tan Son Nhat International Airport last week.

An officer said on Tuesday that the police division in charge of dealing with economic crimes was expanding its probe into a diamond trafficking ring through the airport.

The municipal Department of Public Security teamed up with customs officers at Tan Son Nhat discovered P.S.H., an Indian citizen, trafficking over 700 diamonds while he was entering Vietnam from India via the airport on October 23.

Diamonds seized after police in Ho Chi Minh City caught an Indian man for illegal diamond transport through Tan Son Nhat International Airport. Photo: Supplied

A police officer reads an arrest warrant to an Indian man for illegally transporting over 700 diamonds via Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City. Photo: Supplied

He admitted his violation to police officers, confessing that if the over 700 natural and synthetic diamonds had been successfully transported, they would have been sold to traders in Ho Chi Minh City.

(US$1 = VND25,290)

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Tieu Bac - Dan Thuan / Tuoi Tre News

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