Drug traffickers in the Golden Triangle make full use of the rugged terrains and local ethnic minority people with their limited knowledge and information about the harmfulness of drugs to traffic and hide drugs in far-flung areas along the borderline between Laos and Vietnam. They then seek ways to infiltrate the drugs into Vietnam and a third country.

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 The Ha Tinh provincial Border Guard arresting two drug traffickers. Photo: cand.com.vn

In the past 5 years, the Border Guard Command of Ha Tinh in cooperation with the police force of Laos has continuously launched attacks and raids onto dens of drug traffickers.

Functional forces have succeeded in seizing tons of precursor, hundreds pies of heroin and synthetic drugs as well as arrested hundreds suspects at the Cau Treo border gate and in Laos’ land.

Behind the peaceful local villages in the border areas of Ha Tinh (Vietnam) and Borikhamsay (Laos), drug-related criminals seek methods and ways to traffic drugs into Vietnam. As a result, involved forces of the two countries face various difficulties in tackling new tricks of criminals.

Many competent scouts of the Ha Tinh Border Guard have been deployed into the fight against drug traffickers. In many cases, scouts and police officers had to track suspects for many days in forests, living in a very difficult and dangerous condition.

According to the local authorities, drugs are collected in bulks from the Golden Triangle, then transported across the Mekong River to Borikhamsay and finally transported into Vietnam through the Cau Treo border gate area.

Ly Tau, also known as a “drug baron”, managed a number of major drug rings in the area. In the case of Ly Tau, the Ha Tinh Border Guard in collaboration with the police force of Laos succeeded in arresting 6 suspects and 92 bars of heroin.

Source: baobienphong.vn

Translated by Bac Hoang