Sunday, May 02, 2021, 14:16 GMT+7
Ly Chu is seen in a session conducted by police in Lao Cai Province, Vietnam to recreate the crime scene. Photo: Tuoi Tre Contributor
A COVID-19 patrol team member in northern Vietnam has been found joining hands with an illegal immigration ring that had been busted after arranging for hundreds of people to cross the border between Vietnam and China.
Police in northern Lao Cai Province on Saturday said they were interrogating Ly Chu, a patroller of the team, who was also the head of a grassroots-level military command board, along with several others involved in the racket that was broken up on April 13, VnExpress reported.
Saturday, April 24, 2021, 15:12 GMT+7
Four arrested in a ring of illegal immigration organizers in Lao Cai Province, Vietnam. Photo: Thanh Tuan / Tuoi Tre
Police in northern Lao Cai Province said on Friday that they had broken a racket that had helped about 200 illegal migrants cross the Vietnam - China border over the past year.
The ring was uncovered after police in Lao Cai the capital city of the province, in collaboration with the provincial traffic police, caught 16-year-old Bui Thi Ngoc from the north-central Vietnamese province of Nghe An illegally crossing the border from China to Vietnam on April 13.
At the police station, Ngoc admitted that she had previously paid a group VND12 million (US$522) to get support for illegally leaving Vietnam for China, where she planned to work in prostitution.