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To: Wayne Rumball who wrote (189)	10/6/1998 2:28:00 PM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.	Respond to of 249

Man jailed for selling fake heroin Tuesday October 6 12:01 PM EDT dailynews.yahoo.com HANOI (Reuters) - A court in northern Vietnam has sentenced a man to 15 years in prison for selling fake heroin, a court official said on Tuesday. The official from the People's Court in the northwestern province of Lai Chau said Hoang Van Thang was jailed late last month after being found guilty of trying to sell 70 grams (2.45 ounces) of a powder he thought was heroin. ''The examination results showed that it was not heroin but that is not significant,'' the official said. ''The purpose was to sell drugs and we have to deal severely with that.'' Lai Chau province -- formerly one of Vietnam's main opium growing areas -- borders Laos and has been used by international traffickers bringing drugs out of the infamous Golden Triangle. An official from the People's Supreme Court in Hanoi said people should be punished for attempting to traffic drugs, whether the narcotics were real or fake. ''In Vietnam, drug traffickers are all punishable whether they are aware or not of what they have attempted to sell,'' he said. Trafficking as little as 100 grams (3.5 ounces) of heroin in Vietnam is punishable by life imprisonment or death by firing squad. A court in the northern province of Ninh Binh last week sentenced three people to death and two others to life in jail after they had been found guilty of smuggling 10.4 kg (22.9 lb) of opium and 12 kg (26.4 lb) of heroin.