Three packages containing drugs have been found on a beach in Binh Son District in the central province of Quang Ngai.

Ho Chi Minh City Police are coordinating with Department C04 and local police to continue to expand the investigation into the big drug trafficking and arrest leaders of the ring.

Police forces in Ho Chi Minh City announced on November 29 that they have smashed a criminal gang smuggling illicit drugs from Cambodia, arresting several traffickers and seizing almost 35 kgs of various drugs in the process.

The police in the northern province of Hai Duong announced on November 27 that they have successfully smashed two large drug rings sending illicit substances into Vietnam via international air routes and through postal services.

The case is still in the process of appeal, and the two flight attendants have not been able to return to Vietnam.

The Drug Crime Investigation Police Department (C04) under the Ministry of Public Security announced on November 24 that it has smashed a cross-border drug production and trafficking ring and launched legal proceedings against seven suspects.

The police forces of HCMC, Hanoi, Hai Phong, Da Nang, and Can Tho cracked 5,981 drug trafficking rings and arrested 10,904 drug traffickers in 2023.

The People’s Court of Binh Phuoc Province yesterday sentenced three defendants to death for smuggling nearly 31 kilograms of drugs from Cambodia to Vietnam.

Drug traffickers have discovered many new ways to hide drugs to escape the supervision of the police. Drugs can be mixed, marinated, or packaged in the form of food, beverages or electronic cigarettes.

Founded to combat drug crime in the nation, the Drug Crime Investigation Police Division under the Hanoi Police has its work cut out for it.

The Hanoi Customs Department on June 22 confiscated two packages transported by air from France to Vietnam, containing 19kg of ketamine.

The Ho Chi Minh City Police prosecuted 57 cases and 129 defendants with crimes for the acts of illegally trading, transporting and storing drugs, failing to report and conceal crimes.

The amount of drugs seized via air routes has been increasingly lately, with the majority of drugs being transported from Europe, according to details given by the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

The police in Tay Ho district of Hanoi have broken up a transnational drug trafficking ring led by a Vietnamese-Canadian man.

Police in Ho Chi Minh City on April 28 announced that they have cracked down a ring that brought raw materials from Europe to make synthetic drugs in Vietnam.

Border guards in the north-central province of Thanh Hoa said on April 27 that they have arrested two Lao nationals for transporting 15,000 pills of synthetic drugs into Vietnam.

At least 50 people have been arrested in connection with the Vietnam Airlines drug smuggling case.

One of the two defendants, Thongvang, 35, was also prosecuted for the ’illegal possession of military weapons’.

Lately, police officers warned that gangsters have disguised mixed drugs, packaged in the form of food and drinks to hide from authorities.

Regarding the case of the four Vietnam Airlines flight attendants who transport drugs from France to Tan Son Nhat Airport, the police have initiated an investigation and will provide updates on the results.