A 25-year-old Nigerian, Unachukwu Chiluba Paulinus, has been sentenced to death for illegally transporting narcotic substances into Vietnam from Cambodia.
The judgment delivered on Tuesday, April 13, by the People’s Court of the South-western province of Tay Ninh, Vietnam, was based on Article 250 of the 2015 Penal Code of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, local media reported.
According to sources, Paulinus was arrested on February 19, 2020, in the Ta Pheng area of Thuan Tay hamlet in Loi Thuan commune, Ben Cau district, while transporting nearly three kilogrammes of methamphetamine.
He told police that he arrived in Cambodia in 2019, where he met an African man called Oscar who hired him to transport the drugs from Phnom Penh to Ho Chi Minh City for $2,000, out of which he was paid $650 in advance.
After traveling by taxi from Phnom Penh to the border, he crossed over into Vietnam and was arrested by Ben Cau district’s Police.
He also confessed to having earlier transported a backpack containing drugs from Cambodia to HCM City, which he delivered to an unknown man.
Paulinus’ conviction comes few days after another Nigerian, Ekwegbalu James Nzube was also sentenced to death for trafficking nearly four kilogrammes of methamphetamine in the same country.
