Phnom Penh, Cambodia News: A 27-year-old Cambodian woman, Chan Dara, and a 55-year-old Vietnamese-Hongkong woman, TAM HIU TING, were arrested at a shipping company in Sangkat Teuk Thlar, Phnom Penh, for trying to smuggle drugs from Cambodia to Australia in a large teddy bear.

The police confiscated 962 grams of Methamphetamine which, was hidden in the package with the teddy bear.

These women are innocent.

The teddy bear acted alone.

prahocalypse now wrote: ↑Fri Oct 19, 2018 11:25 am These women are innocent.

The teddy bear acted alone.

probably true, they would have mearly been footsoldiers probably by their dealer husbands or did it for money

August 2, 2019
Two Vietnamese women sentenced for drug trafficking
Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday convicted two Vietnamese women and sentenced them to 22 years each in jail for transporting nearly one kilogram of methamphetamine from Cambodia to Australia via a shipping company.

Presiding Judge Kov Sao identified them as Chan Dara, 27, who worked with Gaza Club in Daun Penh district, and her mother-in-law, 55-year-old Tam Hiu Ting.

Judge Sao said both were charged with drug possession and trafficking after they were arrested in Chamkar Mon district on October 15 last year by the Interior Ministry’s anti-drug police department.

“The court has decided to convict and sentence both to 22 years each in jail,” Judge Sao said. “The court has ordered them to pay 40 million riel [about $10,000] each to put into the state budget.”

Deputy prosecutor Sith Vanank said that at about 4pm on October 15 last year, staff working with shipping company DHL in Sen Sok district’s Toek Thla commune, seized a suspicious package containing a toy bear from two Vietnamese women who intended to send it to Australia.

Mr Vannak said the staff alerted undercover police officers stationed at the branch to inspect it. Officers found white powder inside the toy bear, which was identified as methamphetamine.

Police then arrested the two women in their rental home in Chamkar Mon district’s Boeng Tumpon commune.
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50629721/t ... afficking/

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