Foreign man sentenced to death over drugs transportation

The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court Tuesday sentenced Michael Ikenna Nduanya, a 34-year-old Nigerian, to death and his wife Nguyen Thi Hai Anh, a 27-year-old Vietnamese from Dak Lak Province, to life imprisonment after the couple being caught red-handed ‘illegally transporting drugs.’
According to the indictment by the Supreme People's Procuracy, a friend living in India offered in 2008 to pay Michael Ikenna Nduanya US$1,000 each time to transport drugs. Nduanya turned the friend down, as he knew Vietnam severely cracks down on illegal transportation of drugs.
Knowing Nduanya had a roommate, the friend then succeeded in persuading the two to join the affairs. The roommates would accordingly take over drugs transported from India to Vietnam’s neighbor Cambodia and carry them to Ho Chi Minh City and then Hanoi where another person would transfer the dope to China.
In early December 2009, Nduanya asked his wife to collect around 1 kilogram of heroin from the friend in Cambodia after his roommate had been earlier arrested by Cambodian police on their way to the neighboring country to take the heroin.
Hai Anh, his wife, caught a bus from Ho Chi Minh City to Cambodia to get the drugs and took them back to hide in her bedroom. She was then captured at Mien Dong coach station in the southern hub with the heroin divided into separate smaller amounts found in her shoes, purse, and handbag on her way to Hanoi.
The couple had allegedly committed the crime four times before but police have been unable to find out material evidence and are now conducting further investigation into the allegation.
source: tuoitrenews

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