HANOI, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- Two young men from Vietnam's northern Dien Bien province have been detained and prosecuted for transporting over 14 kg of heroin, according to police of Hanoi capital on Saturday.
Lau A Chu, 23, and Lau A Chia, 19, were caught in the capital city when they were transporting 40 cakes of heroin.
Chu confessed that he had been hired to transport the drug from Dien Bien to Hanoi then to the three northern province of Thai Nguyen, Cao Bang and Bac Kan at a wage of 200 million Vietnamese dong (8,700 U.S. dollars). Chu asked Chia to accompany him to jointly transport the drug.
According to Vietnamese law, those convicted of smuggling over 600 grams of heroin or more than 2.5 kilograms of methamphetamine are punishable by death. Making or trading 100 grams of heroin or 300 grams of other illegal drugs also faces death penalty.
