Taiwanese man sentenced to 20 years in Vietnam drug case

Hanoi - A court in Vietnam has sentenced a Taiwanese man to 20 years in prison for smuggling heroin in his underwear, a court official said Wednesday. The People's Court of Ho Chi Minh City handed the sentence to Chen Yi Yen, 27, at the one-day trial Tuesday, said presiding judge Nguyen Thi Thu Thuy. Chen was caught in the city's Tan San Nhat Airport in the city with 342 grams of heroin hidden in his underwear in January as he was preparing to board a plane for Taiwan, Thuy said. He confessed in his trial that he was hired by a couple in Ho Chi Minh City to transport the heroin for 100,000 Taiwan dollars and that the heroin was brought in from Cambodia. Vietnam's draconian drug laws levy heavy penalties for small amounts and possession of more than 600 grams of heroin or more is punishable by death, a sentence handed down to at least 31 heroin traffickers so far this year. © 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur

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TaiwaneseSupporterAug 16th, 2007 - 05:39:09

Supposedly, this man is one of Chen Shui-bian's financial backers.

Apparently, in an unfortunately censored news report, this guy admitted that the money he was receiving from drugs was going into a slush fund for Chen Shui-bian and the DPP party.

I'm ashamed of being a DPP supporter.

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