Two men from the same village bought drugs on credit to sell for profit.
(Baonghean.vn) - Just because of greed, when a Lao man asked "if anyone wants to buy drugs, please contact", Tho Ba Po and Va Ba Tua decided to go drug trafficking to receive money.
On May 6, Nghe An Provincial People's Court opened a first-instance criminal trial of defendants Va Ba Tua and Tho Ba Po, both born in 1990, residing in Pa Khom village, Tri Le commune, Que Phong district, for the crime of "Illegal drug trafficking”.
According to the case, around March 2023, Tho Ba Po met a Laotian man (name and address unknown) in Pa Khom village, Tri Le commune, Que Phong district. After getting acquainted, Po and this man exchanged phone numbers with the intention that when a customer asked to buy drugs, Po would contact them to sell for profit.
On March 27, a man who introduced himself as a native of Tuong Duong district called Va Ba Tua to come to his house and ask to buy 30 packets of pink phien and half a cake of heroin. Tua agreed and the two sides agreed on a price of 125 million VND. This man gave Tua 25 million VND for the fee to find the drugs. After that, Tua called Po to inform him that someone had ordered drugs and told Po to find the “goods” to sell to customers, and the two of them would split the profit in half.
In early April 2023, Po contacted the Laotian man to buy the amount of drugs the customer ordered. The two agreed on 30 packages of pink phien for 28 million VND and half a cake of heroin for 50 million VND. Po deferred the debt, and would pay later when the drugs were sold.
After that, Tho Ba Po crossed the border from Nhon Mai, Tuong Duong district to Laos to get the "goods". Po brought them home and kept them in his wardrobe and informed Tua. Tua called the customer who had placed the order to set a date for the transaction. Then Po took Tua on a motorbike to Cha Lang village, Huu Khuong commune to deliver the drugs. When arriving at the meeting point, Tua took the drugs from the trunk of the car to deliver them to the customer, but was arrested by the Tuong Duong district police task force along with the evidence. Po took advantage of the loophole to run away and was arrested in mid-January 2024. The police determined that the total weight of the two types of drugs that Po and Tua were responsible for was 760.61 grams.
At the trial, both defendants confessed and admitted to all their crimes. The 25 million VND that the customer gave to Tua was completely spent.
Considering the case as a whole, the Trial Panel sentenced Tho Ba Po and Va Ba Tua each to 20 years in prison for the crime of "Illegal drug trafficking".
