The Hanoi People’s Court on Tuesday sentenced a 30-year-old man to death for trafficking over 230.5kg of heroin and illegally possessing military weapons.
The court handed down the death sentence on Bui Van Bien, who was arrested in May after months of fleeing.
In April, the court passed eight death sentences and three life sentences on 11 accomplices of Bien, including Nguyen Van Tinh, for drug trafficking.
In mid-September, Tinh, 28, from Hanoi, escaped from a detention centre in the capital city, but was recaptured six days later.
Bien and Tinh were members of a trans-provincial drug trafficking ring led by a 44-year-old woman named Dang Minh Chau from northern Lang Son province.
Chau and her accomplices successfully traded over 303,5kg of heroin, with a large volume of the drug being hidden in gas cylinders, and illegally possessed two handguns and dozens of bullets.
According to Vietnamese law, those convicted of smuggling over 600 grams of heroin or more than 2.5kg of methamphetamine are punishable by death.
Trafficking of 100 grammes of heroin or 300 grammes of other illegal drugs also attracts death penalty.
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