Two Vietnamese detained in Paris drug fraud

• Vietnam confiscates 94 pistols smuggled from Czech
• Vietnam seizes half a ton of smuggled African ivory
• 2 Japanese charged in Vietnam for gold smuggling
• Vietnamese flight attendant nabbed for gold smuggling in South Korea
• Vietnamese flight attendant arrested for smuggling gold to S. Korea

Parisian police detained two French citizens of Vietnamese origin for allegedly falsifying documents to obtain prescription drugs they planned to sell in Vietnam, the Le Parisien reported.

The accused, who used to be a couple, were caught red-handed last week at a hotel near Paris during their delivery of the drugs, the newspaper said Monday. 

Police say the couple used false papers to collect prescription drugs from 430 pharmacies, mostly in Paris—a scheme that caused €150,000 ($158,000) in losses to France's health care system.

Investigators say the pair enlisted flight attendants to smuggle the medicines into Vietnam. 

During a search of the suspects' home, French investigators found €15,000 in cash, a bag of medicine and €6,000 worth of luxury leather goods, the newspaper reported.

The two face charges of fraudulently obtaining prescription drugs, according to the report.

Related News:

> Vietnam seizes half a ton of smuggled African ivory

> Vietnamese flight attendant nabbed for gold smuggling in South Korea