Ho Chi Minh City is set to hear a major gold smuggling case involving 24 defendants accused of transporting over 6.1 tonnes of gold bars worth billions from Cambodia through the Chang Riec border gate. This elaborate scheme highlights vulnerabilities in Vietnam’s border controls and raises concerns about potential collusion within the system, as reported by a Vietnamese publication, Cafef. The indictment by the Supreme People’s Procuracy reveals two smuggling rings operating from July 2022 to September 2022. Nguyen Thi Minh Phung allegedly led the first ring, using a network of over 20 people …