A court in HCMC last month sentenced another Vietnamese-Australian woman to death for attempting to smuggle 2.8 kilograms of drugs to Sydney. Customs and police officers said the heroin were split into 26 bags hidden carefully in her baggage. A Vietnamese Australian was arrested Sunday in Tan Son Nhat Airport when she allegedly attempted to board a flight from Ho Chi Minh City to Australia with nearly 5 kg of heroin in her baggage. They estimated the value of the smuggled heroin to be as high as $750,000 once it could reach Australia. The 37-year-old woman, whose name was not revealed, told the police that she would be paid US$25,000 for the job.

Source: Thanhnien News July 24, 2016 13:07 UTC