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Smuggling ring worth nearly 1,000 billion Vietnamese dong exposed after cross-border seafood case

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A 1,000 billion Vietnamese dong smuggling and bribery ring has been dismantled by the Ministry of Public Security, following the discovery of 4,400 tons of mud crabs and pork udder illegally transported across the border without quarantine.

3,400 smuggled diamonds funneled into SJC retail system

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Expanding the transnational smuggling case involving 30,000 diamonds, police have indicted four more individuals—key links who funneled over 3,400 smuggled diamonds into SJC's retail system.

Smuggling over 7,000 durian-ripening products

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Nguyen Ai Chau, 42, and accomplices accused of smuggling 7,039 durian-ripening products from China and Thailand, valued at over 4.5 billion VND.

Indian man smuggled nearly 1,500 diamonds into Vietnam

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Prajapati is accused of illegally entering Vietnam five times with a total of nearly 1,500 undeclared diamonds, with customs officials discovering 715 hidden in a cookie box during his final attempt.

Smuggling over 18 tons of blueberries into Vietnam for consumption

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Duong The Manh arrested for allegedly smuggling 18,660 kg of fresh blueberries through two border gates, Kim Thanh and Tan Thanh, for sale in Vietnam.

Skin whitening treatment causes client's death, 3 arrested

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Luu The Quynh and two accomplices have been arrested, accused of providing illegal at-home skin whitening injection services that led to the death of a 34-year-old woman.

Scheme to smuggle hundreds of tons of dried betel nuts into China

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Soaring dried betel nut prices, exceeding 100,000 dong per kilogram, have exposed a transnational smuggling ring responsible for illegally moving over 400 tons of goods worth 44 billion dong across the border.

Large-scale ring counterfeits over 10,000 luxury brand jewelry items

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Over 10,000 counterfeit jewelry products from world-renowned brands were sold on the market for years, earning suspects 30 billion VND.

Gold smuggling ring worth nearly 1,000 billion VND dismantled

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Ho Thi Mai Thanh and five individuals accused of establishing a ring to smuggle 200 kg of gold from Cambodia into Vietnam, valued at nearly 1,000 billion VND.