Vietnamese Warehouse Stored 46Kgs of "Chinese Tea"

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Vietnamese Warehouse Stored 46Kgs of "Chinese Tea"

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Cambodia News (Phnom Penh): From April 8 to 10, 2022, the anti-drug police raided a warehouse belonging to a 40-year-old Vietnamese man named Liu Wangtao, called Huo, and found 45 packages of illegal drugs that weighed 46.24kg. Warehouse #842 was located in Tangov Kandal village, Sangkat Niroth, Khan Chbar Ampov.
The packages of drugs were found stored in 1 kilogram packets of Chinese tea that are used to transport methamphetamine throughout South East Asia.
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Three other female suspects were also detained along with the Vietnamese warehouse owner for further investigation.
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30 years + 30 years + 30 years + 30 years.....

what waste of lifes !!!
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leitfaden wrote: Thu Apr 14, 2022 5:20 pm 30 years + 30 years + 30 years + 30 years.....

what waste of lifes !!!
The sad thing is that these people are just expendable employees and there are many more people willing to take their place. Lambs to the slaughter.

The Chinese tea packaging shows clearly that this haul belongs to the SEA crime gangs that are massively involved in meth production and trafficking. Apparently, the big guys take these sort of losses into account and still make billions.
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The big guys also very rarely get caught too.
They are the ones who control the mass of drugs and make the money, also payment's to the people who let it happen.
Always "hope" but never "expect".
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"Liu Wangtao" doesn't exactly sound like a Vietnamese name...Should the headline perhaps be "Chinese warehouse stored 46kgs of "Vietnamese tea" ? :evil:
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Anchor Moy wrote: Thu Apr 14, 2022 5:50 pm
leitfaden wrote: Thu Apr 14, 2022 5:20 pm 30 years + 30 years + 30 years + 30 years.....

what waste of lifes !!!
The sad thing is that these people are just expendable employees and there are many more people willing to take their place. Lambs to the slaughter.

The Chinese tea packaging shows clearly that this haul belongs to the SEA crime gangs that are massively involved in meth production and trafficking. Apparently, the big guys take these sort of losses into account and still make billions.
In all these news reports nobody ever poses the question of who owns these huge piles of drugs, the logistics of the goods-in / goods-out process, the money trail and how long the police have been surveilling the operation. It just a raid where they count up the packets and pose for photos.

These dishevelled people they arrest clearly are not the ultimate beneficiaries of the operation and nobody ever seems to name their co-conspirators. In fact, nobody appears to even ask any such questions. In a country where murder suspects all confess within 15 minutes of being arrested, they seem to remain remarkably stoic in their 'no grasing' ethics.

I can't remember any report where the police raided a villa in a borey and arrested someone with a Rolls Royce and $500,000 in cash and at the same time raided their warehouse where the drugs are kept.

The whole thing looks like a pantomime; a public relations exercise to pretend they are doing something, to threaten the public about what happens if you traffic drugs and to scare off any potential competition.

Maybe these people are just set up in business for a few months for the sole purpose of being set up for an arrest because the police need some arrests with the drugs confiscated being the Police's end of the deal.
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Yeah, you don't have to be a mastermind to figure out that the keepers of the drugs are not the owners in cases like this one.

Sometimes the news says they are "keeping the suspects for further questioning", but Chinese thugs might all look the same to them, and for sure they are not going to introduce themselves. Phone numbers are easily changed.
And anyway, when they arrest the henchmen (Chinese or not), it's only one more chain up the ladder. Sometimes, rarely, the chemists get busted, and there have been some recent busts of large amounts of chemical components being moved through Cambodia. There seems to be a bit of traffic going by sea from Sihanoukville organized by Chinese, but what is seized is probably a very small pourcentage of what gets shipped out.
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I think many know the real source, but they are never going to speak out.
Always "hope" but never "expect".
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