A Romanian Caught With Almost 5 KG of Cocaine

Phnom Penh: Police officer at Phnom Penh International Airport on 14 August 2016 arrested a Romanian man with almost 5 KG of Cocaine.

The head of anti-drug trafficking department applauded the airport police officers for catching this international drug trafficking.

Police said, the Romanian man was traveling via QR 970 plane on 14 August 2016. He was arrested around 3:50 pm and caught with 4960.69 grams into Cambodia.

The suspect was brought to the anti-drug department for questioning.

Username Taken wrote:Wow. What would 5 Kg of Cocaine be worth?

About half a million dollars.

phuketrichard wrote:wow, he flew from Saigon to Phnom Pehn, why when he could have taken the bus ?
would like to know
1. where he started?
2. if he had another flight onwards?
3.was it a tip off?

The police arrested a Romanian national at the Phnom Penh International Airport after they found around 5kg of cocaine.

Phnom Penh

The police stationed at the PPIA arrested a Romanian national in the afternoon of August 14 2016 and found around 5kg of cocaine.
The National Authority for Combating Drugs (NACD) expressed his appreciation for the police action at the PPIA against an international drugs traffic.
The arrested man was on flight QR970 of 3.50PM. They found in total 4960,69gr of cocaine.
The suspect was taken to the NACD-department of the Ministry of Interior for questioning.

QR970 is the flight from Ho Chi Minh to Phnom Penh.
Suspect's DOB 06/07/1981.

http://khmeread.com/posts/11578

Last time i went through pp international it was swarming DEA looking americans and coppers just waiting.

A truly international drugs operation : a Romanian flying from Brazil brings drugs to Cambodia to pass on to a Nigerian from Thailand, and they all get busted by a tip-off from the US DEA.
Two Men Arrested in Airport Cocaine Bust After US Tipoff

Adrian-Calin Varadi, 35, had arrived from Brazil and was apprehended by authorities at the airport at about 4 p.m. in response to a tip from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Deputy National Police Commissioner Mok Chito said on Monday.

He did not explain why they picked Mr. Varadi out of the crowd. But once arrested and questioned, he said, the Romanian led police to his alleged Nigerian contact, Chukwuemeka Ibe, 40, who was arrested at a Phnom Penh guesthouse on Sunday evening.
“[Mr. Varadi] came to Cambodia in order to give the drugs to another person who came from Thailand,” he said. “We already arrested the person who came to take the items.”

https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two- ... ff-116721/

phuketrichard wrote:wow, he flew from Saigon to Phnom Pehn, why when he could have taken the bus ?
would like to know
1. where he started?
2. if he had another flight onwards?
3.was it a tip off?

The police arrested a Romanian national at the Phnom Penh International Airport after they found around 5kg of cocaine.

Phnom Penh

The police stationed at the PPIA arrested a Romanian national in the afternoon of August 14 2016 and found around 5kg of cocaine.
The National Authority for Combating Drugs (NACD) expressed his appreciation for the police action at the PPIA against an international drugs traffic.
The arrested man was on flight QR970 of 3.50PM. They found in total 4960,69gr of cocaine.
The suspect was taken to the NACD-department of the Ministry of Interior for questioning.

QR970 is the flight from Ho Chi Minh to Phnom Penh.
Suspect's DOB 06/07/1981.

http://khmeread.com/posts/11578

I've taken this flight a dozen or more times.

The route is actually Doha to PP and just does a 1 hour stop off in Saigon to drop off people not wanting to continue on to PP and pick a few backpackers up going to PP.

Those going Doha all the way to PP never get off the plane in Saigon as its just a 50-60 min stop.



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Chinese Man Nabbed With Rhino Horn

by Phan Soumy and Aisha Down | August 17, 2016

A search of the luggage of a 31-year-old Chinese man arriving in Phnom Penh uncovered more than 4 kg of rhinoceros horns that a wildlife NGO valued at more than $400,000 on the Chinese market, where it is coveted as a status symbol, officials said.

The man, Weng Zhiyong, 31, was traveling from Namibia but arrived at Phnom Penh International Airport on Sunday afternoon on a Qatar Airlines flight that originated in Doha, Cambodian customs authorities and immigration police said.

It was the same flight on which a Romanian was caught traveling with nearly 5 kg of cocaine valued at more than $500,000, according to airport immigration records. Mr. Weng was arrested at 4:30 p.m. after Cambodian authorities searched his luggage.

“We decided to check the target after we learned what country he’d been traveling from,” said Leang Hay, chief of customs at the airport. “Previously, we’ve arrested people—mostly Chinese and Vietnamese—carrying rhinoceros horns.”

The seizure—eight pieces of horn weighing 4.38 kg—was the fifth major seizure of rhino horn at a Cambodian airport since 2012, Mr. Hay said.

full-story.....https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/chin ... rn-116790/