The prosecution has requested the death penalty for Nguyen Van Hung, who used a police vehicle to transport drugs, and Ha Minh Duc, who "aided and abetted" Huong "Mau" in trafficking 134.8 kg of narcotics.
Le Nguyen Anh Tuan and three others were sentenced to life imprisonment instead of the death penalty for trafficking 118 kg of drugs, thanks to a newly amended criminal law.
Vo Thanh Tam and his wife are accused of setting up a factory to produce 70,000 counterfeit bottles of Eagle Brand Medicated Oil from Singapore and thousands of other products.
Tran Phuoc Vinh and his accomplice posed as bank employees, targeting Vietnamese living in the US and Australia with loan offers, collecting fees, and then vanishing.
From 1/7, individuals knowingly selling or processing food made from diseased animals or using banned chemicals face fines of 100-400 million VND or 2-5 years imprisonment.
Peter Braunstein, disguised as a firefighter, broke into a female colleague's apartment, drugged and bound her, and sexually assaulted her for 13 hours, filming the ordeal before fleeing.
Cut Thi Tuyet and Cut Thi Lien received 10- and 12-year prison sentences for trafficking a 14-year-old girl to China for marriage, receiving 250 million VND.
Drowning in debt, Tran Ngoc Ha Quynh tricked several people into investing in a scheme to buy winning lottery tickets, exchange them with the lottery company for a profit, and ultimately defrauded them of over 63 billion dong.
Nguyen Thi Luyen, a former accountant, received a 13-year sentence for depositing 42 billion VND in compensation funds into a savings account and falsifying documents to embezzle 161 million VND.
Operation Pangea 17, spanning over 90 countries, netted 50.4 million doses of illicit pharmaceuticals and shut down 13,000 websites promoting counterfeit drugs.
The court unexpectedly recalled two witnesses instead of delivering a verdict in the case of truck driver Do Minh Tan, who twice ran over a victim, resulting in death, but the witnesses were absent.
New regulations mandate photographs of document signings in the presence of a notary public. These photos, printed in color or black and white on A4 paper, will be included in notarization records.
A 38-year-old driver was charged with reckless driving and disrupting public order after chasing and forcing two trucks to stop on the Noi Bai-Lao Cai Expressway.
Seven hours after arriving home, Chris Johnson discovered his fiancee's body in the closet. Strange details kept the case unsolved for over two decades.
Major General Nguyen Huu Hop, former Quang Nam provincial police chief, has been appointed director of the Da Nang police department following the merger.
