Vietnam:Two Foreign Nationals Sentenced To Death For Drug Trafficking
Apr 16, 2021 ·
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The People’s Court of the southwestern province of Tay Ninh, Vietnam, has sentenced a 25-year-old Nigerian Unachukwu Chiluba Paulinus to death for illegally transporting narcotic substances into the country from...
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The People’s Court of the southwestern province of Tay Ninh, Vietnam, has sentenced a 25-year-old Nigerian Unachukwu Chiluba Paulinus to death for illegally transporting narcotic substances into the country from Cambodia.
The judgment delivered on Tuesday, April 13, was based on Article 250 of the 2015 Penal Code of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
Paulinus was arrested on February 19, 2020, in the Ta Pheng area of Thuan Tay hamlet in Loi Thuan commune, Ben Cau district, while transporting nearly three kilogrammes of methamphetamine.
He confessed that he arrived in Cambodia in 2019, where he met an African man called Oscar who hired him to transport the drugs from Phnom Penh to Ho Chi Minh City for $2,000. He was paid $650 in advance.
After traveling by taxi from Phnom Penh to the border, he crossed over into Vietnam and was arrested by Ben Cau district’s Police.
He also confessed to having earlier transported a backpack containing drugs from Cambodia to HCM City, which he delivered to an unknown man.
Also on March 2nd , the court handed down the death penalty to Ekwegbalu James Nzube, 45 a Nigerian, for illegally transporting nearly 4kg of meth, in line with the 2015 Criminal Code.
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The judgment delivered on Tuesday, April 13, was based on Article 250 of the 2015 Penal Code of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
Paulinus was arrested on February 19, 2020, in the Ta Pheng area of Thuan Tay hamlet in Loi Thuan commune, Ben Cau district, while transporting nearly three kilogrammes of methamphetamine.
He confessed that he arrived in Cambodia in 2019, where he met an African man called Oscar who hired him to transport the drugs from Phnom Penh to Ho Chi Minh City for $2,000. He was paid $650 in advance.
After traveling by taxi from Phnom Penh to the border, he crossed over into Vietnam and was arrested by Ben Cau district’s Police.
He also confessed to having earlier transported a backpack containing drugs from Cambodia to HCM City, which he delivered to an unknown man.
Also on March 2nd , the court handed down the death penalty to Ekwegbalu James Nzube, 45 a Nigerian, for illegally transporting nearly 4kg of meth, in line with the 2015 Criminal Code.
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