VEITNAM: Veitnam’s Hanoi Police Department’s Senior Lieutenant Colonel Thanh Kien Trung told that a women hailing from the northern province of Quang Ninh and Co Kien Son, a Honaoi man were both apprehended for bringing in banned goods in the country.
At 11:00 am that day, police detected Loan delivering numerous suspicious packages from a car to Son in the parking lot of the Metro supermarket on Pham Van Dong Street in Bac Tu Liem District, Sr. Lt. Col. Trung said.
Police went to the scene to inspect the car and found that the two were handling and receiving 33 packages of gold jewelry weighing 33.5 kg in total.
These packages contained more than 4,300 jewelry items made of 18-karat gold including necklaces, bracelets, earrings, and others, which were all smuggled from Hong Kong, police said.
The smuggled goods were brought into Vietnam through the Vietnam-China border crossing in Quang Ninh’s Mong Cai town for sale in Hanoi and other localities.
The total value of the goods is estimated at more than VND21 billion (roughly $1 million).
Police have seized the smuggled goods and are further investigating the case.
