Ho Chi Minh CityA court sentenced eleven people to death in a single case.
It is Vietnam’s largest drug case, while the network that recruited couriers goes unsentenced.
The case began in 2023, when four flight attendants were caught carrying narcotics in toothpaste tubes from Paris.
Vietnam executes drug offenders without notice, unlike neighbours narrowing capital punishment.
How each outlet framed it
- The Diplomat
- reconstructs trafficking method: drugs concealed in toothpaste/supplements via airline staff, used encrypted messaging, ringleader at large
Sources: The Diplomat