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Taiwanese Jailed For Smuggling In Millions Worth Diamonds

A Ho Chi Minh City court sentenced a Taiwanese man Tuesday to 10 years in prison for smuggling in diamonds worth millions of dollars.The court also confiscated from Chen Hsin Hsiung 2,510 diamonds including nearly 2,000 from a place he rented to stay and do business in the high-rise Thuan Kieu Plaza in district 5.Other jewels and US$30,700 too were confiscated.Chen, 45, who said he had been hired by a Taiwanese man to work on a commission basis, was caught red-handed in September 2004 at HCMC’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport with nearly 230 diamonds.He told the court that between 2001 and 2003 he had only come to Vietnam to broker marriages between Vietnamese girls and Taiwanese men, but had, in April 2003, begun to work for a Taiwanese man for $850 a month to smuggle the diamonds.But he claimed not to remember how many diamonds he had smuggled in the period.Prosecutors said between March and September 2004 alone he had smuggled in over 15,000 diamonds and sold 6,280 of them for over $900,000.He would put the contraband in small plastic bags which were then mixed up with other articles in his luggage. Each time he had brought several hundred stones.The prosecutors said on March 10, 2004, he had sneaked in nearly 2,000 stones, sold over 720, and returned the rest to his Taiwanese boss.The customs department said it had failed to discover Chen’s activities because the number of people arriving at the airport had skyrocketed and left its people with little time to check thoroughly.

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