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Drug smuggler Kant get a break
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 A 36 year-old Vietnamese Australian man regained consciousness after being incapacitated for four days in Ho Chi Minh City's Cho Ray hospital after ingesting heroin and after doctors had removed nine packs of heroin from his stomach.
Nguyen Kant was still in a very weak state but is now able to breathe without the support of oxygen, doctors said.
The Australian national was rushed to hospital on May 5 after he had collapsed just after take off on board a plane bound for Sydney, Australia. Pilots of the jet were forced to return to the Tan Son Nhat International Airport to seek treatment for Kant.
This is the second time in three months that narcotic and custom officers at Tan Son Nhat airport have arrested an Australian of Vietnamese origin for drug trafficking.
Jasmine Luong, 33, was caught red-handed in possession of over 1.4 kg of heroin while aboard a plane that was also heading to Sydney.
Luong confessed that she had also thought about swallowing the heroin in order to pass through customs, but changed her mind. Swallowing heroin is a common method of trafficking the drug, police said.
Kant has been placed under strict supervision by police while investigations continue.
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Heroin-swallowing smuggler awakens out of 'drug shock'
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A Vietnamese-Australian man who swallowed 1kg of heroin in 51 balloons and lost consciousness after defecating two lumps on a flight to Australia Saturday woke up yesterday.
Nguyen Kant, 36, no longer needs to rely on respirators, but police will not interrogate him until he has completely recovered.
Kant’s loose stools betrayed his criminal intent when he defecated two of the packages on board a flight from Ho Chi Minh City to Sydney. He then passed out and the alarmed Vietnam Airlines crew decided to return for an emergency landing at Tan Son Nhat Airport in Ho Chi Minh City an hour and a half into the flight.
He was hospitalized in the city, where he passed 9 more balloons filled with heroin in bowel movements. An ultrasonic scan revealed that 40 similar balloons weighing an estimated 1 kg in total were still in his body.
Doctors said that one of the balloons ruptured inside his intestines, which leaked heroin into his body and put him in a state of “medical shock.”
Kant is now under treatment in police custody.
Possessing, trading or trafficking 600 grams (1.32 pounds) of heroin is punishable by death in Vietnam.
Several Australians of Vietnamese descent have been arrested for trafficking heroin from Vietnam to Australia in recent years. At least four have been sentenced to death.
Source: Nguoi Lao Dong
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