Mr. Phuc, Head of the National Committee for AIDS, Drugs and Prostitution Prevention and Control, on November 26 requested the Ministry of Public Security to work with related agencies at home and abroad to promptly identify the origin of the heroin.
The Ministry is in charge of cooperating with the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Finance to apply effective measures to discover drug trafficking cases via maritime and air routes and at airports, border gates and sea ports.
The General Customs Department under the Ministry of Finance and the Aviation Civil Authority under the Ministry of Transport are responsible for taking measures to prevent drug trafficking to and from Viet Nam by air.
Taiwan police said on November 17 they had confiscated 600 heroin cakes totaling 229kg discovered in 12 amplifier boxes in a container transported by air from Viet Nam.
Under Article 194 of Penal Code, offenders who illegal stockpile, transport, trade or appropriate heroin or cocaine weighing 100 grams or more shall be sentenced to death.
