Vietnam police indict 12 people who traded 763kg of heroin

The Ministry of Public Security’s investigators have completed their investigation into a transnational drug trafficking case and indicted 12 people who had traded 2,861 bricks of heroin and 633 synthetic drug tablets.

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The large-scale drug ring had bought drugs from Laos to northern Vietnam for sale in Hanoi and many provinces including Son La, Hoa Binh, Hanoi, Bac Ninh, Bac Giang and Lang Son, investigators said on Monday, after over a year of investigation.

The ring also sold heroin to China through the Vietnam-China border, investigators said.    
    
After arresting these 12 traffickers in July last year, the police have been hunting for six other members of the ring.

The ring’s leader was Trang A Tang, 32, who resided in Son La. Tang was detained along with his 11 accomplices on July 26, 2013 in Bac Ninh province.

On that day, local police signaled to stop two suspicious Toyota cars for examination but they sped away. After a long chase, police stopped them and caught them transporting a total 256 bricks of heroin.  

One of the cars was driven by Tang and the other by one of his accomplices, Trang A Nenh, also from Son La.

From the testimonies of the two men, police later arrested their ten accomplices and seized from the ring 2,861 bricks of heroin weighing 763 kg and 633 synthetic drug tablets.

After investigation, police concluded that Tang was the ring’s leader who organized a network to buy heroin in large quantities from Laos and then transported them to Vietnam for sale.

Tan alone transported 1,791 bricks of heroin weighing 626 kg.

One of his accomplices, Giang A Nha, former secretary of the Party Committee of two hamlets in Long Luong commune, Son La, traded 310 bricks of heroin.

Tang’s father, Trang A Chu, 56, head of Long Luong’s Lung Xa hamlet, and Giang A Cho, another ring member, who was an police official in Lung Xa, also traded 265 and 950 bricks of heroin respectively.

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