Drug traffickers get
long term imprisonment
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angon,
31 Jan — Loilem District Court on 10 December sentenced Maung Kyaw of Kontan
Village, Konyaung Village-tract, Loilem Township to 20 years in prisonment for
possession of 1.404 kilos of raw opium.
Maung Kyaw, 41, son of U Kun was
arrested in his house with the drugs at 10 am on 1 October 2002 when a combined
team of local intelligence unit and local police force, acting on information,
searched the house. The case was filed at Mongpun Police Station.
Similarly, Yangon East District
Court handed down Ma Tin Myint of Dagonmyothit (South) Township 20 years
imprisonment for possession of narcotic drugs for trafficking on 26 December.The
case was that a combined team of local intelligence and Yangon Special
Anti-Drug Squad acting on a tip-off searched Ma Tin Myint’s house at No. 1605,
Nilar 2nd street, 57th Ward, Dagonmyothit ( South) at 10 pm on 11 September 2002
and seized 616 grammas of marijuana. Action is being taken against Ma Tin Myint,
41, daughter of U Armut Hmyar by Dagonmyothit ( South) Police Station under the
section 15/19 (Ka) of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law.
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Drug traffickers sentenced
Y
angon,
30 Jan — A combined team comprising members of local intelligence unit and Bago
Anti-Drug Squad, acting on a tip-off, searched a house of Daw Than Myint of No
64, Nyeinchanyay 3-Street, 13-Ward, and that of Daw San Wai in Toungoo on 23 May
2002 and seized 108.17 grams of opium from the latter’s house in the same
compound.
In connection with the case, action was being taken
against them under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law by No 2 Police
Station, Toungoo.
On 2 December, Toungoo District Court sentenced Daw
Than Myint to life imprisonment under Section 19 (A)/23 and Daw San Wai to five
years’ imprisonment under Section 15.
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Drug Trafficker
sentenced
Y
angon,
26 Jan — A combined team comprising members of local intelligence unit and
Mandalay Anti-Drug Squad, acting on a tip-off, searched the house of Soe U Tar,
26, son of U Paw Oo of Cherry Road, Thirimingala Ward, Meiktila, on 5 January,
2002, and seized 439.13 grams of marijuana. In connection with the case, No 1
Police Force Station, Meiktila, filed him under Section 15/19 (A) of Narcotic
Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law.
On 26 December, Meiktila District
Court sentenced him to five years’ imprisonment under section 15 and 15 years’
imprisonment under section 19 (A) to serve separately.
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Stimulant
tablets seized in Hpa-an
Y
angon, 24 Jan –
A combined
team comprising members of the local intelligence unit and Hpa-an Special
Anti-drug Squad, acting on information, on 16 January searched the house of Tin
Win of Naung Lon Village in Hpa-an Township and seized 723 stimulant tablets.
Action was taken against Tin Win (a) Hpa Pwe, 40, son of U Kyaw under Sections
15/19 (A)/ 20(A)(B) of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law by Hpa-an
Police Station. The Hpa-an District Court handed down 5 years’ imprisonment on
Tin Win (a) Hpa Pwe under Section 15 and 15 years’ imprisonment under Section
19(A) to serve separately.
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Drug dealers sentenced
Y
angon,
17 Jan – A combined team comprising members of local intelligence unit and
members of Tachilek Special Anti-Drug Squad, acting on information, searched Aik
Sam on the Palongkon Street, Ponehtun Block, Tachilek Township, on 20 August,
2002 and seized him together with 70 stimulant tablets.
In connection with the case,
action was taken against Aik Sum, 25, son of U Aik Yi in Namhsan Township under
Section 15/19 (a) of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law by Tachilek
Police Station. The District Court of Tachilek handed down Aik Sam to 5 years’
imprisonment under Section 15 and 12 years’ imprisonment under Section 19 (a)
separately on 17 December.
Similarly, a combined team
comprising members of local intelligence unit and Tachilek Special Anti-Drug
Squad, acting on information, searched the house of Htun Hlaing (a) Aik Htun and
seized a visitor arriving there, Aik Yi together with 1200 stimulant tablets and
wife of Aik Htun, Ma Ei Nut together with 30 stimulant tablets totalling 1230
stimulant tablets. In connection with the case, action was taken against the
three culprits Htun Hlaing (a) Aik Htun, 40, son of U Sine Lon, Ma Ei Nut, 29,
daughter of U Kyin Hon in Muse and Aik Yi, 35, son of U Aik Kut in Namhkam under
Section 15/19 (a)/ 21 of Nacotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law by
Tachilek Police Station. The District Court of Tachilek handed down the three
culprits to 20 years’ imprisonment each on 17 December.
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Drug trafficker
sentenced
Y
angon,
15 Jan – A combined team comprising members of local intelligence unit and
police force, acting on a tip-off, searched Tun Wai at Lunn Kyaing riverside
bathing place in Tachilek on 24 June, 2002, and seized 15 liters of phencodine
from him.
In connection with the case,
action was taken against Tun Wai, 31, son of U Bo of Palian (1) Ward, Honglaik
village-tract in Tachilek under Section 15/19 (A)/ 20 (B) of Narcotic Drugs and
Psychotropic Substances Law by Tachilek Police Station. Tachilek District Court
sentenced him to 20 years’ imprisonment under section 19 (A) on 6 December.
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Drug possessor jailed
Y
angon,
13 Jan – Acting on a tip-off, a combined team comprising members of local
intelligence unit and Tachilek Anti-drug Squad, searched Daw San Nyu in
Lwesitone Village, Hongleik village-tract, Tachilek, on 1 September 2002 and
apprehended her together with 0.8 kilo of raw opium.
In connection with the case,
Tachilek Police Station opened the case against Daw San Nyu, 57, daughter of U
Chaw Hla, under Section 15/19(A) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic
Substances Law. Tachilek District Court sentenced her to 5 years’ imprisonment
under Section 15 and 15 years’ imprisonment under Section 19 (A) separately on 6
December 2002.
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Drug trafficker gets death sentence
Yangon, 8
Jan – On 25 January 2002, Yangon Division Bureau of Special Investigation
revealed that Kyaw Hlaing (a) Yaw Hpa Li of Mawra Giwa Ward, Chanayethazan
Township in Mandalay, carried 240 kilos of heroin blocks and 6.5 million
stimulant pills on board Shwengagyi motor boat from Kyauktada jetty near
Thakayta rice warehouses in Mingala-taungnyunt Township to the fishing boat of
Thailand in Adman Sea in December 2000. The drug trafficker, making contacts
with groups from abroad, had carried and sold 1,427 kilos of heroin, 138.7
million stimulants, 28,197.2 kilos of ephedrine powder, 12,100 kilos of caffeine
and 12 viss of opium since 1992.
The
Mingalataungnyunt Police Station filed the drug trafficker, 43, son of U Roger
Yin, under Sections 19 (A), (B), (D), 20 (B), 22 (A) and 21 of the Narcotic
Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law. The Yangon Division court held a special
court and handed down unlimited years of imprisonment under Sections 19 (B), 21
and 22 (A), unlimited years of imprison-ment under Sections 19 (D), 21, 22(A), a
death sentence under Sections 20 (B), 21, 22 (A) on Kyaw Hlaing (a) Yaw Hpa Li.
The court passed a sentence of death on the culprit by hanging him till death
under Section 368 (1).
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