Chinese national detained for drug trafficking in HCM City

Li Chunying has been arrested at HCM City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport for bringing methamphetamine into Vietnam.

Li Chunying has been arrested at HCM City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport for bringing methamphetamine into Vietnam.

The airport’s customs officers uncovered the 26-year-old Chinese national hiding 2.23kg of methamphetamine his case.

Li, who boarded a plane from Hong Kong to HCM City, was said to go through a number of international airports without being discovered, before entering Vietnam.

The case has been transferred to HCM City’s Drug Criminal Investigation Police for further investigation.

So far this year the Customs Office of HCM City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport has discovered and detained 9 drug trafficking cases, with the amount of confiscated drugs totaling 20kg.