The drugs and weapon seized from the ring recently uncovered in HCM City (Source: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – A ring trafficking drugs fromCambodia to Ho Chi Minh City has been uncovered by the city’s police after morethan four months of investigation.
Police said on September 11 that they hadarrested seven persons born between 1976 and 1996 involved in the ring, withall of them also drug users. Thirty-five kilogrammes of different kinds ofdrugs, along with two guns and 21 bullets, had been seized.
The ring hired two apartments in Thu Ducdistrict and District 8 to cover their activities. They trafficked drugs fromCambodia to HCM City through the vicinity of Moc Bai Border Gate in thesouthern province of Tay Ninh.
Further investigation into the ring is underway.
At a ministerial meeting on drug crime combat inHanoi on September 10, Colonel Vu Van Hau, deputy head of the police departmentfor drug crime investigation under the Ministry of Public Security, cited dataof the UNODC as showing that the number of methamphetamine trafficking casesuncovered in East and Southeast Asia rose 8-fold between 2007 and 2017,reaching 82 tonnes and accounting for 45 percent of all such cases around theglobe. The seized meth in the region was estimated at 116 tonnes in 2018.
He also pointed out the complicated drugsituation in Vietnam in recent years. So far this year, the country hasuncovered more than 13,000 drug cases, detained over 20,000 persons involved,and seized nearly 5 tonnes and over 500,000 pills of synthetic drugs, more than750kg of heroin and 571kg of dried marijuana./.
Measures to promote joint investigation in preventing drug trafficking along sea routes in Southeast Asia were discussed at a workshop in Hanoi on September 9.
A ministerial meeting on enhancing the cooperation effectiveness in combating transnational drug crime was held in Hanoi on September 10 as initiated by the Vietnam Ministry of Public Security.
Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh stressed the need for all countries to make joint efforts in the fight against drug crime while receiving heads of delegations attending a ministerial meeting in Hanoi on September 10.
Ministers of some Asian countries and representatives of organisations pledged to promote bilateral, regional and international cooperation in combating drug crime in a joint statement issued at a meeting in Hanoi on September 10.
The 18th trilateral and bilateral ministerial meetings on drug prevention and control between Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam (CLV) took place in Hanoi on September 11.
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The drugs and weapon seized from the ring recently uncovered in HCM City (Source: VNA) 
