Seoul Major Crime Investigation Agency Transfers Two Suspects for Drug Smuggling

The Major Crime Investigation Agency has transferred two suspects caught attempting to smuggle illegal drugs into the country to prosecutors under detention.

These mark the second and third suspect referrals under detention since the agency's launch on October 2.

The Narcotics Investigation Bureau of the Seoul Regional Major Crime Investigation Agency announced today (October 30) that it has transferred a Vietnamese man in his 40s, identified as A, to the Incheon District Prosecutors' Office under detention on charges of violating the Narcotics Control Act.

A is accused of illegally residing in South Korea and attempting to smuggle 1.8 kilograms of marijuana hidden in international mail into a location in Sejong earlier this month.

It was learned that the Seoul Major Crime Investigation Agency also transferred a South Korean man accused of smuggling hundreds of grams of methamphetamine into the country in mid-October to the prosecutors' office under detention today.

The investigation agency apprehended them through "controlled delivery," tracking down the actual recipients along the distribution route of the drugs intercepted by customs authorities.

The agency applied for arrest warrants for them through the Incheon District Prosecutors' Office, and the court issued the warrants on October 25, citing risks of flight and destruction of evidence.

B, a Southeast Asian national and the first drug suspect whose custody was secured by the Major Crime Investigation Agency, was handed over to the prosecutors' office on October 23.

B was also arrested on October 18 on charges of attempting to bring in international mail containing 2.5 kilograms of marijuana.
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