Photo credit: Tuoi TreA court in central Vietnam on Monday sentenced two men to death and another to life in prison for smuggling more than 7kg of heroin into Vietnam from Laos in 2014. According to the indictment, Khanh paid Hua VND10 million (US$450) to accompany three Lao men, who remain at large, to Vietnam. The duo paid them a total of $47,000 for more than 7kg of heroin and nearly 300 grams of methamphetamine. According to the court, Hua is an unemployed pedagogy university graduate who had also involved in another major drug smuggling case in the central province. The case was tried on March 25 when he and another defendant, Hoang Van Quang, 43, got death sentence for smuggling nearly 7kg of heroin from Laos to Vietnam.

Source: Thanhnien News September 13, 2016 08:03 UTC