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VIETNAM: SUPREME PEOPLE’S COURT UPHOLDS DEATH SENTENCE TO THAI DRUG MULE
April 4, 2014: The Supreme People’s Court, Vietnam’s highest court, upheld the death sentence to a Thai woman for smuggling nearly two kilograms of cocaine from Brazil to Vietnam two years ago.
Chaimongkol Suracha, 32, was sentenced to death last August by a Ho Chi Minh City court on charge of “illegally transporting drugs.”
Chaimongkol was arrested October 1, 2012 at the Tan Son Nhat International Airport in HCMC, after Vietnamese customs officers discovered the cocaine.
The cocaine wrapped in four packs weighed more than 1.98 kilograms.
In the appeal trail, she begged for mercy saying she had children.
But the judges said given the huge the amount of drugs she smuggled, the death sentence was justified. (Sources: Thanh Nien News, 04/04/2014)
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