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| Vietnam Airlines suspends two crew for smuggling cash |
| 05-APR-2008 Intellasia | The Earth Times |
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| 5 Apr, 2008 - 7:07:00 AM |
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Vietnam Airlines has suspended two flight attendants for illegally bringing US$300,000 in cash into South Korea, a company excecutive said Thursday. Nguyen Quy Hien and Nguyen Hoang Huong Xuan were caught carrying the money while going through customs at Seoul's Incheon Airport after a flight from Hanoi on March 19.
"Vietnam Airlines decided to suspend them this week because they violated South Korea's customs regulations," said the national carrier's spokesperson Trinh Ngoc Thanh.
According to South Korean customs regulations passengers entering the country must declare all currency valued at over US$10,000.
Vietnam Airlines, the country's state-owned flag carrier, has also suspended one of its pilots, whom an Australian court Tuesday charged with smuggling millions of dollars in drug profits out of Australia.
The court claimed that pilot Lai Quoc Viet, 58, illegally transported US$3.4 million from Australia to Vietnam between June 2005 and June 2006. Viet was arrested at an airport in Sydney on Monday after a flight from HCM City.
Last August an Australian court sentenced another Vietnam Airlines pilot to four and a half years in prison for laundering more than 6 million dollars. Tran Dinh Dang was arrested in June 2006 with 540,000 dollars in cash in his cabin luggage.
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