As reported by VietNamNet, the Supreme People's Procuracy has completed the indictment against 12 defendants in the transnational drug trafficking ring from Laos to Vietnam. Among those prosecuted are Mr. Nguyen Van Hung (former police officer of Duc Giang Ward, Long Bien District, Hanoi) and Ha Minh Duc (former police officer of the Drug Crime Investigation Team, Long Bien District Police, Hanoi).

According to the accusation, in late 2018 and early 2019, Nguyen The Thanh knew that Ha Ba Vu (residing in Bolikhamxay province, Laos) was selling drugs, so the two sides agreed to buy and sell "crystal" and "pink" drugs. According to the agreement, the drugs would be transported across the Vietnam border by Vu's people to Thanh's people at several locations near the border in Nghe An and Ha Tinh provinces. Thanh was in charge of drug consumption.

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During that time, Thanh moved to Hanoi and met Truong Tuan Dung (Dung “Bop”). Thanh and Tuan discussed and agreed to buy drugs. Accordingly, Thanh was in charge of receiving drugs from Vu’s people and transporting the drugs to Hanoi, while Dung found consumers.

Around the beginning of 2019, Dung told Thanh that he had a younger sister named Nguyen Thi Kim Huong (aka Huong “Mau”), who was capable of buying and selling drugs. In particular, Huong “Mau” had a very good relationship with the police officers, so if he sold drugs to Huong, he could rest assured. After that, the “trio” met to discuss buying and selling drugs.

The relationship of the "boss"

In the process of illegally buying and selling drugs by the defendants, there was direct assistance and participation from two former police officers, Ha Minh Duc and Nguyen Van Hung.

Around April 2019, Thanh called Vu to order 30kg of crystal meth and 400 packets of heroin. Thanh called Huong to inform her and Huong “Mau” agreed to buy the drugs.

After transporting the drugs to Hanoi, Huong called Nguyen Van Hung so that this former police officer could use a police car from Duc Giang Ward Police, Long Bien District, to transport the drugs for the "boss", taking them to the hiding place at Huong's motel in Long Bien District.

Mr. Hung even let Huong “Mau” keep drugs in a house behind this former police officer’s house for a while. Following Huong’s instructions, the “younger brothers” of this “boss” came to Mr. Hung’s house many times to get drugs to sell. Because Mr. Hung was often away from home for work, it was inconvenient to come to get drugs to sell, so later Huong asked the wife of another police officer to rent a room to hide the drugs.

In June 2019, Huong introduced former police officer Ha Minh Duc to Truong Tuan Dung and Nguyen The Thanh. Huong told her two accomplices: "This is Mr. Duc, an officer of the Drug Team of Long Bien District Police, let me introduce you so we can get to know each other."

On September 23, 2019, Le Hong Hai (who lived with Huong as husband and wife) and Nguyen Thanh Duc were caught red-handed by Long Bien District Police while delivering drugs.

Huong quickly called Ha Minh Duc to inform him. At that time, Ha Minh Duc was in Can Tho, but through someone else, he instructed Huong to clean up and hide the drugs and related items from the motel to avoid being discovered by a search. Sure enough, the next day, Huong's motel was searched and the police did not confiscate any items or documents related to drugs.

Later, Nguyen Thanh Duc was released by Long Bien District Police and handed over to Duc Giang Ward Police to take him to rehab. Ha Minh Duc was the one who drove Nguyen Thanh Duc to rehab. The former police officer had given Nguyen Thanh Duc the favor of meeting Huong before he was sent to the rehab facility.

According to the accusation, former police officer Nguyen Van Hung assisted and covered up for Huong "Mau" and her accomplices in illegally buying and selling 37,360 grams of drugs, illegally profiting 740 million VND.

Meanwhile, former police officer Ha Minh Duc was accused of covering up for Nguyen Thi Kim Huong and her accomplices in illegally buying and selling 134,800 grams of drugs, illegally profiting more than 1.3 billion VND.