Thursday, April 01, 2021, 13:00 GMT+7
This supplied photo shows Nguyen Xuan Quy and his narcotics at a police station in Hanoi.
A patient at a mental hospital has been arrested for running a drug ring inside the institution in Hanoi.
Police officers under the municipal Department of Public Security confirmed on Wednesday they had broken up an illegal drug racket run by Nguyen Xuan Quy, 39, from Thanh Tri District.
According to officers, many of those implicated in the discovery of the drug ring had complicated criminal records.
Quy had a history of mental illness and was admitted to National Mental Hospital 1 in November 2018.