Hưng Yên man jailed 3 years for selling cannabis paid by bank transfer
The People's Court of Region 6 in Hưng Yên Province sentenced a 37-year-old man to three years in prison and a 2 million đồng fine for illegally trading narcotic substances, after he sold a bag of dried cannabis for 200,000 đồng in July 2026. Police traced the sale while investigating a group of young people who smoked the cannabis in cigarettes.
🇻🇳 Hưng Yên Province (formerly Thái Bình and Hưng Yên), Vietnam
A court in Hưng Yên Province sentenced a 37-year-old man to three years in
prison and a fine of 2 million đồng for illegally trading narcotic substances,
after he sold a bag of dried cannabis for 200,000 đồng.[1]The first-instance
trial was held by the People’s Court of Region 6, one of the regional courts
that replaced the district courts in the merged Hưng Yên Province.[1]
The sale happened on the evening of 15 July 2026, when young men contacted the
man, a resident of Trần Lãm ward, and asked to buy cannabis.[1]At his home in
Trần Lãm he handed over a red-clipped nylon bag holding dried herb described as
cannabis.[1]The buyer asked the price, was told “của em hai trăm” (200,000
đồng) and paid by bank transfer.[1]The buyer passed the bag to friends on the
way back, and they put the cannabis into cigarettes and smoked it all.[1]
The man admitted trading narcotics for profit on the evening of 15 July 2026
when he appeared before the judges.[1]He told the court he bought the
cannabis in mid-June 2026 from a man of about 40 near Phúc Khánh bridge in Vũ
Phúc ward, and investigators said they had not established that seller’s
identity.[1]The provincial police’s investigation agency had prosecuted him
under clause 1 of Article 251 of the Penal Code, which covers illegal drug
trading.[1]
Photos and video
Photo captioned as the defendant after receiving a three-year prison sentence for illegally trading narcotic substances, credited only to the initials TK.Photo details
The article gives no hearing date; 7 November 2026 is its publication date and is used as the incident date.
No weight or value of the cannabis was published, so no cannabis quantity or street value is recorded; the 200,000 đồng price is kept in the text, not as a value figure.
The article gives no criminal record or appeal information, so it is not known whether the sentence has become final.
The article and the July account differ slightly: the buyer's group is described as young men in the sentencing account and as teenagers in the police account, and only the police account names the people involved.
The headline and court report describe cần sa (cannabis) while the charge is the general illegal drug trading offence.
The seller from whom the man bought the cannabis was not identified, so no other person is recorded as charged or arrested.
The photograph on the page is credited only to the initials TK and is not established to be a press or police handout picture.
Left out, as its quotation was not found in Báo Lao Động: Police in Bình Định commune had traced the sale during an investigation into a local group accused of organising cannabis smoking and handed his file to the provincial agency, which prosecuted him and another person on 24 July 2026.
The People's Court of Region 6 in Hung Yen sentenced Dau Thanh Tung, Dau Van Trung and Luong Nhat Tan to seven years each for organising cannabis use on 9 June 2026. Police summoned the trio after residents reported them, and urine tests confirmed recent cannabis use.
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On 12 June 2026, the Quảng Ninh provincial people's court sentenced 18 defendants in a cannabis ring that had used Telegram to take orders and arrange payment. The court found more than 401 kg of cannabis had been traded between 2023 and June 2024. Nguyễn Phi Cơ and Nguyễn Duy Mạnh received death sentences; Nguyễn Tuấn Anh received life.
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