Transnational drug ring busted in Dien Bien
VOV.VN - Border guards operating in the northwestern border province of Dien Bien successfully busted a transnational drug trafficking ring, seizing 96,000 pills of synthetic drugs and 11 kg of methamphetamine in the process.
According to details given by police, at 20:00 p.m. on July 31 in Na Khoang village of Muong Nha commune in Dien Bien district, the locality’s border guards working in collaboration with the police division for drug crime investigations under the provincial police department discovered a suspicious man who was walking from the border area to Vietnamese side.
They subsequently stopped the man to be searched before finding a large quantity of drugs.
He was identified as Lau A Ly, born in 1994 and residing in Na Khoang village.
Ly admitted that he was hired by a Laotian man to transport the drugs and intended to deliver them to an unidentified person in Nua Ngam commune.
The case is now under further investigation.