In particular, in April 2023, the two sides successfully carried out a joint operation that dismantled a major organised, transnational drug trafficking ring involving both Vietnamese and Cambodian suspects.
Around 1,000 inmates in Indonesia have so far been transferred to the maximum-security prison island of Nusakambangan since Minister of Immigration and Correctional Services Agus Andrianto assumed office.
Legislators engaged in the 9th session’s deliberations on May 27 morning over the proposed amendments to the Penal Code that would eliminate the death penalty for illegal drug transport, replacing it with a life imprisonment without sentence reductions.
The step was taken to protect account holders and to maintain the integrity of the national financial system. Dormant accounts are those that show no transaction activity over a certain period.
At the scene, more than 30kg of drugs were seized, including three bricks of heroin, eight kg of methamphetamine, over 12kg of ketamine, tens of thousands of ecstasy pills, and hundreds of packages of liquid drugs.
The proposal was jointly submitted by police, army officers, and the Interior Ministry as a measure to strengthen efforts against human and drug trafficking along the Thailand-Cambodia border.
The border guard force of An Giang province in the Mekong Delta reported on January 3 that it had worked with relevant authorities to arrest a man involved in trafficking 22 kg of drugs from Cambodia into Vietnam.
Politburo member and Minister of Public Security General Luong Tam Quang met with visiting Indian Deputy National Security Advisor Pavan Kapoor in Hanoi on December 5.
Police in Tuong Duong district in the central province of Nghe An announced on June 8 that they had smashed a drug trafficking ring from Laos to Vietnam, detaining five Vietnamese suspects.
Officials from the Greater Mekong sub-region countries have agreed to crack down on drug trafficking as synthetic drug markets in the region continue to grow.
Border guards of central Quang Nam province and relevant forces have arrested eight people for trafficking 198kg of drugs, including 44 heroin bricks and 181.75kg of other drug types, from Laos to Vietnam.
The Vietnam Border Guard High Command on May 9 commended the drug and crime control department of the border guard force and border guards from the central province of Ha Tinh for seizing a big haul of drugs smuggled from Laos to Vietnam.
Police of Ho Chi Minh City have launched investigation into 22 cases involving 65 persons for drug-related charges and dealt with 12 persons involved in administrative violations, while probing into some flight attendants’ smuggling of drugs from France to Tan Son Nhat Airport on March 16.
The Narcotics Investigation Police Department under the Ministry of Public Security held a meeting in Hanoi on April 6 to review the operation of the Safe Mekong Coordination Centre (SMCC), which has been set up in all countries in the Mekong sub-region as part of their joint efforts to fight drug trafficking.
Drug prevention and control activities must be put under the leadership and direction of the Party Committees and administration at all levels, especially the grassroots level, with the People’s Public Security force playing the key role but not the only force in the work, said Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh at an online conference on drug prevention and control on March 10.
The Border Guard Command in the central province of Ha Tinh announced that its forces and local agencies on March 8 caught a Lao national red-handed trafficking two kilos of Methamphetamine from Laos to Vietnam.
Cambodian authorities have seized 884 kg of narcotics in a single raid in the coastal province of Preah Sihanouk, a provincial military police officer said on December 12.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and India held their 9th Senior Officials Meeting on Transnational Crimes (SOMTC) in a virtual form on July 20, according to the Indian Foreign Ministry.
