Supreme Court Upheld Four Vietnamese Drug Traffickers’ Conviction

 


Buth Reaksmey Kongkea   

 The Supreme Court yesterday upheld the conviction of four Vietnamese-drug-traffickers who were convicted in 2020 by the lower court to imprisonment from 30 years to a life sentence each for possessing and trafficking nearly 100 kilograms of ice committed in 2018, in Phnom Penh. 

Presiding Judge Chiv Keng named the four convicts as Nguyen Tuon Anh, male, 24,  Yoeung Hoang Viet, male, 22,  Nguyen Thi Ngoc, 21, female; and Nguyen Thi Ngin, female, 30. They are Vietnamese tourists.

Judge Keng said that among them, Yoeung Hoang Viet and Nguyen Thi Ngin were sentenced on November 23, 2019 by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court to a life sentence in prison each and a fine 80 million Riels (about $ 20,000) each while Nguyen Tuon Anh and Nguyen Thi Ngoc were sentenced to 30 years in prison and also a fine 50 million Riels (about $ 12, 500) each. 

He said that they were charged with “drug possession, transport, trafficking and produce” under Articles 40, 30, 54 and 56 of the Cambodian Law on Drugs Control. 

He emphasized that they were arrested at about 11. 30 am on December 4, 2018 midnight after police in the anti-drug department in the Ministry of Interior had raided their rental house located in Boeng Kengkang II commune, Phnom Penh’s Boeng Keng Kang district. 

He added that after their arrest, police seized about 100 kilograms of methamphetamines and other drug substances as well as other related materials from their rental house.  // END//

 

 

 


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