A court in Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday sentenced Filipino woman Erlinda Bertuflo Libron to life in prison for “illegally transporting drugs”.
The court’s indictment showed that upon her arrival at HCMC-based Tan Son Nhat airport from Morocco last June, local customs officials detected one yellow plastic pack containing white crystals, weighing 2.1 kilograms, in the bottom of her suitcase which were later defined as methamphetamine.
Libron told the court that when she was in Morocco on August 6 2012, a man only known as Amahid gave her the suitcase (with the drugs inside) and asked her to fly it to Vietnam. In return, the man paid her from US$1,000 to 2,000 for each successful delivery and covered all her travel costs.
Previously, on March 11, another Filipino citizen Javier Engracia Ebalang was sentenced to death by a court in Hanoi, also on the charge of illegal transport of drugs.
Hanoi police arrested her at Noi Bai airport in April after they found 5 kilograms of methamphetamine hidden in her suitcase. Javier confessed that a friend of hers had hired her to bring it to foreign countries for a sum of US$300 per trip.
