Around eight tons of marijuana and a fake passport carried Cheng were seized and nearly 19,600 smuggled jeans would be sold off and money sent to the state budget.

The foreign notes they brought illegally to Vietnam would also be confiscated, the court said.

According to the indictment, Cheng, 52, was hired in April 2008 by two Hong Kong-based men A Giai and A Tran to transfer two containers of marijuana and jeans to Canada for HKD1.5 million (US$193,000).

The containers were brought in from Pakistan and Cheng received them in Quang Ninh, asking Lan to have the goods transferred to Canada at HKD1.2 million

Then the group came from Hong Kong to Vietnam to collect the cargo on April 25, 2008 but they couldn’t prove they were owners of the cargo, so they returned on May 12, when they were caught.

More than a million Hong Kong dollars, 278,262 Yuan and 10,485 US dollars in cash were seized at the time.

Source: Thanh Nien