An Australian man has been jailed in Vietnam for 22 years after he was found guilty of storing and trafficking ecstasy tablets, state media says.
Nguyen Tuan Khanh, 49, an Australian of Vietnamese origin, and six Vietnamese were charged and convicted at a court in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday, the Vietnam News said.
The six accomplices were handed sentences of between seven and 18 years in prison, the English language daily said.
According to the court verdict, the group supplied bars and dance clubs in the former city of Saigon with 3,700 amphetamine pills and more than 45 grams of ketamine from October 2006 to March 2007, the paper said.
In a separate incident, police arrested three Australian women, all of Vietnamese origin, for alleged drug trafficking on Wednesday and Thursday, reports said.
Vietnam has jailed several Australians for trafficking over the past few years.
The country hands down the death penalty to anyone caught with more than 600 grams of heroin or 20 kilograms of opium.
This is all very good, BUT why do not the authorities go after the PRODUCERS ??? !!! It is NOT difficult to find the manufacturers or the PLANTATIONS, it's just that too many people, too HIGH UP are involved. In reality only the small fish are only caught.
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