Vietnam police seize a tonne of meth stashed in loudspeakers

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HANOI (AFP) - Police in southern Vietnam have seized more than a tonne of methamphetamine after uncovering a smuggling operation involving at least two Taiwanese nationals and a Vietnamese man, the third massive bust in a week in the communist state.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

HANOI - Police in southern Vietnam have seized more than a tonne of methamphetamine after uncovering a smuggling operation involving at least two Taiwanese nationals and a Vietnamese man, the third massive bust in a week in the communist state.

The trucks held"extremely heavy" loudspeakers, which prompted suspicion when police found the drivers lacked legal papers to transport the equipment."Police discovered that each loudspeaker carried 10 tea packets... all of them containing methamphetamine," the statement said. "In total, the city police confiscated 103 loudspeakers with 1,110.26kg of methamphetamine and 998.68kg of ketamine for domestic consumption and re-export," the statement said.News of the bust comes on the heels of two massive drug hauls in central Nghe An province, where 600kg of meth was discovered stuffed in speaker boxes in the home of an elderly couple and 900kg was found abandoned on the side of a road earlier this week.

Much of the country's illegal supply floods in from the lawless"Golden Triangle" zone that straddles Laos, Thailand and Myanmar.

 

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