On March 6, Lai Chau Provincial Police said that Muong Te District Police had issued a decision to temporarily criminally detain the subject Ly Khu Nu (born 1957, in Muong Te District) for the act of growing opium. .
Previously, the police of Ta Tong commune (Muong Te district) had information that in a deep forest area, about 4 hours up the mountain from the residential area, there was an area of land growing poppy plants.
Through the struggle Subject Nu confessed that he secretly planted opium poppies in the deep forest with the purpose of getting sap for use and if he harvested a lot, he would sell it.
According to the police, Nu’s opium field has an area of 873 square meters with over 3,200 poppy plants in the process of growing to a height of about 90cm to 100cm, many of which are ripe for sap.
The authorities then made a record and confiscated all of the above opium poppy plants.
Ta Tong is a particularly difficult commune of Muong Te district (Lai Chau) many years ago it was a complex area in terms of security and order. .
In 2023, Muong Te district police arrested and prosecuted Hang Thi Ca (born 1991 in Giang Ly Cha village, Ta Tong commune) for the act of growing opium poppy plants.
>According to the provisions of law, the act of growing opium poppy plants is a violation of the law and will be subject to administrative sanctions with a fine of 5 to 10 million VND or may be prosecuted for criminal liability. The penalty frame is up to 7 years in prison.
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