The city’s Drug Crime Investigation Division (PC04) said the network operated between Ho Chi Minh City and Tay Ninh. Eight suspects have been arrested.
On January 21, officers from PC04’s Team 2, working with police in An Lac Ward, detained Bui Tri Duc, 38, from An Giang, as he transported 50.27g of ketamine outside 545 Kinh Duong Vuong Street, police said.
Investigators said Duc was acting on instructions from Huynh Tan Loc, 25. Officers later arrested Loc and searched their homes, seizing a further 2.15kg of ketamine and 1.65kg of MDMA, along with tablets and powder suspected to be illegal drugs.
Further inquiries led to the arrest of six more suspects. In total, police confiscated more than 2.2kg of ketamine, about 3,600 ecstasy tablets and 0.109g of methamphetamine, along with other evidence linked to the operation.
Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Quoc Tuan, head of Team 2, said the suspects stored drugs in vacant lots before dividing them up and concealing them in cardboard pet food boxes for distribution across multiple localities in an attempt to evade detection.
All eight suspects have been charged and remain under investigation under Vietnamese law.
