Vietnamese caught with 16 kilos of Ecstasy
Phnom Penh Post | 2 May 2017
Using information obtained from Vietnamese authorities,
Cambodian officials arrested a Vietnamese national in possession of 16
kilograms of Ecstasy yesterday at the Thai Arng guesthouse in Svay Rieng
province’s Bavet town.
Meas Vyrith, secretary-general of the National Authority for
Combating Drugs, said yesterday that the Svay Rieng provincial authority
for combating drugs had recovered the stash.
Kan Ken, director of the provincial authority, said that his forces
were informed by Vietnamese officials that two Vietnamese men carrying 2
kilos of drugs had been arrested along the Cambodia-Vietnam border on
April 30. The Vietnamese officials believed an accomplice of the two men
was hiding out in a Bavet guesthouse.
“We checked in the Thai Arng guesthouse, which they informed us about,” Ken said.
Kao Horn, deputy chief in charge of combating drugs at the Bavet
police station, said that while he did not know the names of the
suspects arrested by Vietnamese authorities, his forces had arrested
19-year-old Nguyen Mintieng.
Horn said that his forces searched the guesthouse with members of the provincial authority for combatting drugs.
“[The] suspect left the guesthouse at 4am on May 1, and we checked
the room and found only the drugs, but the suspect came back to the
guesthouse to pick the drug[s] up and we just arrested him there,” he
said.
According to National Police figures, Cambodian authorities arrested
7,366 people, including 23 foreigners, before April 30 as part of
Cambodia’s ongoing drug crackdown.
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