400,000 illegal pills in Vietnam Airlines’ warehouse
17:23' 03/03/2009 (GMT+7)

One kind of drugs (illustration onlly).

VietNamNet Bridge – More than 400,000 illegal pills have been discovered in the warehouse of Vietnam Airlines. The pills have been there for two months.

 

According to the HCM City-based Criminal Science Sub-Institute, these pills contain an addictive substance named Pseudoephedrine. Tan Son Nhat Airport’s Customs Agency has transferred the case to police for investigation.

 

On February 13, 2008, Tan Son Nhat Airport’s Customs Agency checked a batch of goods including six packages, totalling 193kg from India. These packages were consigned in the warehouse of Vietnam Airlines.

 

After nearly two months in the warehouse, the airport’s customs and police opened the package for inspection and they found 419,750 pills named Triprolidine and Pseudoephedrine Hyderochlorides tablet USP (Actifed). This batch of drugs is estimated to be worth VND1 billion ($58,800).

 

The pills were sent by an Indian-based company named Ameen Health Care to a company in Tan Thanh ward, Tan Phu district, HCM City on a flight of Thai Airways on December 13, 2008.

 

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