Cambodia News (Phnom Penh): Large numbers of Chinese tea packages stuffed with methamphetamine are flooding the Cambodian market, and the arrests continue.
On December 3, at 11:50 pm, 4 Vietnamese, 2 men and 2 women, were arrested for trafficking about 10 kgs of drugs packed as Chinese tea in a rented house on street 113, Sangkat Beung Kengkong, Khan Beung Beung Kengkong, Phnom Penh.

The suspects were identified as Toun Anh, 24-year-old man, Horng Viet, 22-year-old man, Thy Ngok, 21-year-old woman, and Thy Ngin, 30-year-old woman. The police confiscated ten 1kg tea packets containing a total of about 10 kgs of methamphetamine and three motorbike plates.

The suspects with the evidence were sent to the Anti-Drug Department for questioning.

https://cambodiapolice.com/policekh/192079
http://www.cen.com.kh/archives/173535.html/national/
http://www.freshnewsasia.com/index.php/ ... 31-54.html

there's a fucking meth lab in phnom penh
no fried chicken presented tho

Nearly 10 kilos of narcotics and more than 28 kilograms of chemicals were seized by the National Police's Anti-Narcotics Department in Phnom Penh and four Vietnamese suspects have been detained for drug trafficking.
5:33 pm 4 December 2019
Phnom Penh: Anti-narcotics unit "A3" cooperated with local police to investigate and crack down on a huge drug trafficking case, arresting four Vietnamese (two women) and about 10 kilograms of drugs and other exhibits, according to His Excellency Lieutenant General Leak Vannak, Director of the Anti-Narcotics Department of the General Secretariat of Police on the afternoon of December 4, 2019.


His Excellency Lieutenant General Leak Vannak confirmed that the operation, under direct command of His Excellency Gen. Nath Savoeun, National Police Commissar General and His Excellency Maj. Gen. Chito, Deputy Commissioner of National Police, was held on the night of December 3, 2019, behind TB Hospital, Street 113, Group 23, Village 3, Boeng Keng Kang II, Khan BKKII, Phnom Penh.


The four suspects are: 1st, Nguyen Yuan Anh, male, year of birth, 17.7.19995, Vietnamese; second, Phuong Hoang Veit Gender Date of Birth 27.7.1996 Vietnamese; Ms. Nguyen Thi Thuy Ngoc Female Female Date of Birth 9.10.1989 Vietnamese; Nguyen Thi Thuy Ngan Female Female Date of Birth 11.10.1990 Vietnamese; all suspects were residing in Boeung Keng Kang District, Phnom Penh.
In the arrest of the four suspects, police seized methamphetamine (ICE) 9925.47g).

The Deputy Director General of the Anti-Narcotics Department confirmed that following the arrest and subsequent questioning by police, under the coordination of the prosecutor, the suspects revealed a drug facility located at # 168, Street 112, Rattanak Village. Ang 1, Sangkat Prek Eng, Khan Chbar Ampov, where the authorities found:

1. 20 grams of amphetamine (MDMA) is equal to 20,305.68g

2. A bottle of 38 Acetone is equal to 12670.72g

3. One small packet of white chrystals, (ICE) 1.85g

4. Black liquid VGA MDMA 24 vial equal to 54464.27g

5. Some of the larger recyclers

6 Acid fluid 16000.25g.

After the police took the suspects to investigate the the drug processing site above, police brought the suspects and the evidence to the National Police's Anti-Narcotics Department to build a case to take action to court.

In this case, HE Gen. Sav Savoeun, Director-General of the National Police, directed the unit to continue their investigation and search to arrest the mastermind and root it out.

Please note that the total evidence captured in the two raids are:

1 / Methamphetamine (ICE) 9927.32g

2 / XMA (MDMA) Weight 74,769.25g

84kg total substance 697.27g

Acetone Chemicals Weight 12670.72g

4 / 16,000.25g Acid compound

Total chemical compounds: 28kg 670.97g






Text and photos taken from the link to the National Police site above provided by @chiaojiang.

They have a fair ol way to go yet with that set up.......They would have been better off with this

December 5, 2019
Police hunt for drug trafficking masterminds
Police are working with their counterparts in neighbouring countries to identify additional suspects believed to have been the masterminds behind the trafficking of nearly one hundred kilogrammes of drugs found in Phnom Penh earlier this week, according to the National Police.

General Mok Chito, deputy national police chief, today said the National Police is working with police in neighbouring countries to identify the four masterminds.

Gen Chito said that police investigation revealed the drugs were brought from near the Lao border in Stung Treng province and brought to Phnom Penh to be processed and distributed across the Kingdom.

Joint police forces on Tuesday arrested four Vietnamese nationals at their rented home in Boeng Keng Kang district and seized 10 kilogrammes of methamphetamine.

The arrests led police to raid another rented home in Chbar Ampov district, where they seized nearly 75 kilogrammes of MDMA and various chemicals, but no one was arrested. Police believed that the masterminds fled to neighbouring countries after they heard about the arrests of the four Vietnamese nationals.
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50667502/p ... sterminds/

Crazy amounts of this stuff are being picked up recently. Probably just the tip of the "ice"berg too.

4 Dec 2019 - Police unwrap the packages...

UPDATE
Anti-narcotics unit arrests another Vietnamese man with nearly 2 kg of drugs
1:16 pm December 6, 2019 1,222

Phnom Penh, Cambodia News: Drug raids in Phnom Penh continue as Cambodian police search for other members of a Vietnamese drug gang. The operation is under the direct command of His Excellency Gen. Nath Savoeun, Deputy Commissioner of National Police.
Two raids were conducted under the leadership of Narcotics Special Forces Division, accompanied by Kuch Kimlong, the deputy prosecutor of Phnom Penh Court.

The first police raid was held at 19:20, on 5 December 2019, in a residence in Borey New World at Khan Russey Keo. Police surrounded the location, hoping to arrest NGUEYN TUAN THANH, a Vietnamese male, resident of Cambodia, born 09/01/1985. Unfortunately, the suspect had already made his escape before police arrived, but captured exhibits at the premises include:

1. Large pack of marijuana
2. One car
3. 2 motorcycles
4. One cash machine
5. One weights scale.


The second target: At 20:52 on the same day, the competent police went on to detain a suspect, Mai Hoan Tien Thanh, Vietnamese male, at 304 corner of street 153, in the neighborhood of Chamkarmon.

At 22:00 hours, the police continued to search Room 608 of the Fermi Hotel, Street 121, Sangkat 7m, Boeng Khlong, Khan 7 Makara, where Mai Hoan Tien Thanh was staying.

Among the drugs and items seized in the suspect's room were:
1. Four bags of clear white crystalline methamphetamine (ICE) powder
2. One large packet of Dark Brown Susceptible Syrup (MDMA)
3. A box of six tablets, and six packets of various pills.

Now, the suspect and the evidence has been brought to the Anti-Narcotics Department of the National Police to build legal action cases.

Time for a change in packaging.
How about "You won't believe it's not meth" ?

January 13, 2021
Vietnamese couple sentenced and fined for drug possession and trafficking

Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday sentenced and fined a Vietnamese couple for possession and trafficking of about two kilogrammes of methamphetamine and ecstacy which they committed in the capital in 2019.

Presiding judge Ek Polifil sentenced 36-year-old Nguyen Tuan Thanh to 25 years in prison and a fine of $15,000 and his 33-year-old girlfriend Vuo Thanh Hong to 20 years in jail and a fine of $10,000. The fines will be put on the state’s budget.

Judge Polifil told the couple that they have the right to appeal the sentences and fines to the Appeal Court within a month.

He said the sentences and fines imposed were for two counts of charges they committed under Article 40 of the Law on Control for Drug Possession and Trafficking.

Judge Polifil said the couple came into Phnom Penh as tourists and were staying in Boeng Keng Kang district’s Boeng Keng Kang II commune.

The police from the Anti-Drug department in the Ministry of Interior raided their rented house on December 4, 2019.

They were arrested after they seized from the premises nearly two kilogrammes of ice and ecstasy drugs, a weighing scale and other related drug materials.

Later when met by reporters, the two convicts refused to comment on whether they will appeal the sentences and fines.
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50803078/v ... afficking/