Four Vietnam Airlines flight attendants had been arrested final Thursday after a flight from Paris, France to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. During a routine safety clearance test, customs officers at Tan Son Nhat International Airport allegedly detected medication within the crew’s baggage, as Vice stories. However, the tactic used to apparently disguise the medication from regulation enforcement was unconventional, to say the least. The cabin crew hoped that nobody would discover something suspicious about somebody carrying greater than 150 tubes of toothpaste.
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Flight attendants Dang Phuong Van, Tran Thi Thu Nga, and Vo Tu Quynh, in addition to cabin supervisor Nguyen Thanh, had been allegedly caught with 25 kilos of unlawful medication in whole. According to Radio Free Asia, the 4 flight attendants had been transporting 154 toothpaste tubes full of contraband; 112 of these tubes had been crammed with gray tablets, which weighed a complete of 18.5 kilos including the load of the packaging. An additional 42 toothpaste tubes had been filled with white powder weighing 6.7 kilos whole. Tests concluded that the tablets had been ecstasy and ketamine and the powder was cocaine.
The flight attendants declare somebody in France paid them $424, or 10 million Vietnamese dong, to transport “some goods” to Vietnam and didn’t consider the tubes had been tampered with. Vietnam is infamous for harsh punishments for drug violations. Those discovered responsible of drug crimes typically face life in jail, and even the demise penalty.
According to Radio Free Asia, Vietnam Airlines believes that the attendants had been serving to buddies transport the products. The flight attendants had been comparatively new staff on the airline, with roughly a 12 months’s expertise. Customs officers had been tipped off in regards to the alleged smuggling scheme, and law enforcement hoped to apprehend the alleged traffickers as they picked up the cargo on the airport, however nobody arrived to gather the bags.
Source: jalopnik.com