Customs officers at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City caught a Thai woman hiding five kilograms of cocaine in her double bottom suitcase on her arrival on Friday, airport authority reported the same day.
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The cocaine was wrapped carefully in silver paper and placed among the jewelries in the undermost bottom of the suitcase, customs officers said.
After the finding, the airport security handed the woman, S.Y., and the cocaine to the city’s anti-drug police for investigation.
The value of the drug is estimated at more than VND32 billion (US$1.512 million), police said.
Along with drug, custom officers in Ho Chi Minh City have recently detected many cases in which drug precursors were disguised as normal goods to be sent to Australia.
On May 28, staffs at the HCMC Express Delivery Customs Sub-Department seized 9.86 kilograms of Pseudoephedrine, a drug precursor, mixed with shrimp paste in two plastic jars that was meant to be sent to
The value of the drug precursor is over VND7 billion (US$331,000).
The consignor of the two jars of “shrimp paste” is a person residing in HCMC’s District 6 and the consignee is an individual in Australia, customs officers said.
The discovery was the latest in a string of cases in which drugs or drug precursors were camouflaged to be sent to receivers in Australia, they added.
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