RE: Tin the^m ve^` vu. Sieng Penh-Vu~ Xua^n Tru+o+`ng

["Huy Quang Nguyen (Global Trends)" <v-huynq@microsoft.com>]

I don't really understand if they can do something over the trial but
what they wanna do is to sentence all of them to death. Drug problem is
so serious in Vietnam now and you guys can easily find it out from
either VNSA, SCV or many other sources.

Quang Huy

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> From: 	Dam Son
> Reply To: 	vnsa-l@csd.uwm.edu
> Sent: 	Saturday, April 26, 1997 3:12 AM
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> Subject: 	Tin the^m ve^` vu. Sieng Penh-Vu~ Xua^n Tru+o+`ng
> 
> Largest drug trafficking ring to be tried on May 2
> 
> The first-instance court of Sieng Penh-Vu Xuan Truong drug trafficking
> ring will be opened on May 2, 1997, said a source from the Hanoi
> People's
> Court. 
> 
> There are 22 people involved in this ring including Vu Xuan Truong,
> former
> captain of the Criminal Police Department of the Ministry of Interior
> Affairs; Sieng Penh, Laotian nationality, former director of
> Export-Import
> Company No. 5 in Laos; Dao Xuan Xe, driver of Transportation Company
> No.
> 3; and Vu Phong Ma, former captain cum chief of the Logistics
> Department
> of Lai Chau Police. 
> 
> This is the largest and most complicated drug trafficking case in
> Vietnam
> so far, so the panel of judges will have five persons instead of three
> as
> normal. Ms. Hoang Tan Thanh, judge of the Hanoi People's Court, will
> preside over the trial. 
>