After nearly six months of tracking, Hanoi City Police dismantled a gold smuggling ring that brought gold from Hong Kong into Vietnam via air transport under the guise of electronic goods.
Thanh Hoa police have discovered a series of businesses selling three-wheeled electric vehicles with suspicious activities, and many models of electric vehicles are being offered at unusually low prices.
Hoang Thuong Ha is accused of falsifying inspection samples and paying over 8,5 billion VND in bribes to Vietnamese customs officials, thereby smuggling nearly 28.000 tons of titanium to China.
The police in Lang Son province have dismantled the largest transnational gold and silver smuggling ring ever uncovered, seizing over 1,5 tons of silver and nearly 0,7 kg of gold, worth 34 billion VND.
From a shipment left behind at the security screening area of Da Nang airport, customs and city police forces uncovered a ring illegally transporting juvenile lobsters.
Le Tan Hoa, the owner of Saigon Transco and the mastermind behind the smuggling of over 1,7 million liters of oil at Phu My port, was sentenced to 13 years in prison by the Ho Chi Minh City People's Court.
In December 2025, the Steering Committee 389 of Quang Ngai province directed the Provincial Market Management Department to launch a concentrated inspection and monitoring campaign of e-commerce activities in the area.
The Lang Son Border Guard arrested four people near border marker 979 and seized nearly 200 kg of firecrackers that were being smuggled into the country.
In response to the rise of counterfeit goods and commercial fraud in the digital environment, coordination mechanisms between relevant authorities are being strengthened to protect consumers.
The Ministry of Public Security is expanding its investigation into the Hoang Huong case, focusing on clarifying further serious offenses such as smuggling and counterfeit production within this ecosystem.
Having smuggled over 546 kg of gold, worth more than 1.208 billion VND, Tran Thi Hoan and many accomplices have been arrested, and the list of gold buyers is gradually being revealed.
Phan Thi Mai and her husband spend approximately 20 billion VND each month advertising their products on social media platforms, while also cultivating an image of successful entrepreneurs who engage in philanthropy.
During the investigation, authorities seized 300 SJC gold bars and 100 land use right certificates, and Phan Thi Mai and her husband voluntarily surrendered 300 billion VND.
According to lawyers, smuggling is one of the crimes that infringe upon the economic management order, and this crime applies to both individuals and commercial legal entities.
Phan Thi Mai and her husband bought cosmetics manufactured in Guangzhou, China at cheap prices, altered their origin, and then smuggled them into Vietnam, earning billions of dong in profit.
Phan Thi Mai, Director of Mailisa Beauty Salon Co., Ltd., has been charged and detained by the Investigation Police Department of the Ministry of Public Security on charges of smuggling.
A large-scale counterfeit cosmetics production and trading ring, with the value of the counterfeit goods equivalent to billions of VND, has just been dismantled by the Ho Chi Minh City Police.
The Quang Ninh Provincial Police have just dismantled a smuggling ring that transported a large quantity of goods through the Bac Luan 2 Border Gate, causing estimated losses to the State of hundreds of billions of VND.
Mr. Pham Van Tam is accused of importing electronic goods from abroad through two companies, purchasing components for processing and assembly, and then selling the finished products without issuing invoices.
The trial panel decided to return the case file to the Supreme People's Procuratorate for further investigation into the case involving suspected complicity with 14 former Hai Phong Customs officials who aided smuggling.
Fourteen former officials and employees of the Hai Phong Port 2 Customs Sub-Department, along with the director, deputy director, and accountant of a business, continue to stand trial for aiding and abetting a smuggling ring.