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Romanian man arrested with nearly 5 kg of cocaine

Xinhua, August 14, 2016 Adjust font size:

A Romanian man was arrested at the Phnom Penh International Airport on Sunday for smuggling about 4.96 kg of cocaine into Cambodia, said an anti-drug chief.

The suspect was identified as Vanadi Adrian Calin, 35 years old.

"The Romanian man, boarded (Qatar Airways) flight QR970 from Doha to Phnom Penh, was arrested at 3:50 p.m. local time with 4.96 kg of cocaine," General Meas Vyrith, secretary-general of the National Authority for Combating Drugs (NACD), said in a report posted on NACD's Facebook page.

Cambodia has no death sentence for drug traffickers, under its law, a person who traffics more than 80 grams of drug will be facing life imprisonment.

The Southeast Asian country saw a remarkable rise in drug arrests in the first half of 2016. According to the NACD, some 5,266 drug suspects were caught during the January-June period this year in 2,158 cases. Endit