The Hanoi People’s Court pronounced the death penalty for two defendants charged with the illegal transportation of drugs at the first instance trial on January 10.
Hanoi (VNA) – The Hanoi People’sCourt pronounced the death penalty for two defendants charged with the illegaltransportation of drugs at the first instance trial on January 10.
They are Vi Trung Hien (born in 1988, from the northernprovince of Lang Son) and Luong Thi Huan (born in 2000, from the northwesternprovince of Dien Bien).
Huan was also given one-year imprisonment forthe illegal possession of drugs.
According to the indictment, in February 2018,Hien knew a man named Thang who lives near the Vietnam-Laos border area. A fewmonths later, Thang agreed with Hien to transport drugs with the payment of 15million VND (646.9 USD) per brick.
On June 5, 2018, Hien received a call from Thangasking to meet at a hotel in Dien Bien city in the evening to receive 10 bricksof heroin (each brick equals to around 350g), then transport them to a petrolstation in Cao Loc district, Lang Son province.
Hien later hired Huan to transport the drugs toLang Son, paying 10 million VND per brick.
On June 7 morning, upon herarrival at My Dinh bus station in Hanoi where she was waiting for a taxi toLang Son, Huan was busted by the police. Hien later gave himself over to thepolice for confession.
Apart from trafficking 10 bricks of heroin, Huanalso stored a small amount of synthetic drugs. She confessed that she hadtransported drugs for Hien multiple times.
Considering this is aparticularly large quantity of drugs, the court decided to apply the heaviestpunishment for the two defendants. –VNA
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