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Director of Binh Minh JSC rejected smuggling suspicion

Ngoc Binh, deputy general director of the Binh Minh JSC, told that the "An Bien 89" carried rice legally and the owner of the rice batch must be accountable to the authorities in the Philippines. He stated she had legal papers on maritime transport activities and the 380 tons of cargo was legal. On Feb 5, after receiving rice from My Thoi Port in An Giang Province, the ship carried rice to the Philippines under a charter contract. On Feb 23, the ship arrived at the anchorage area of Sulu Port to unload cargo. It was inspected by the local navy. Binh confirmed that the information about the arrest of 16 crew members is incorrect. The vessel’s captain Nguyen Van Loi called home to inform that the ship was inspected by the Filipino navy and asked to leave the anchor area in the port of Sulu at 3.25 a.m. The authorities in the Philippines asked the crew to stopped moving rice to three small boats in the anchorage area. After the inspection, the Vietnamese ship was asked to move to the port of Sangbuaaga for investigation. The crew members were still living and working aboard. Binh also rejected the information that the local authorities seized 12 military guns on the ship. Instead the weapons were collected from two of the three ships of the Filipino rice buyer.

Cargo ship arrested with contrabands

Three Filipino-owned boats and the "An Bien 89 Alci" were detained on Feb 23, 2015, in Pata island waters, south of Zamboanga, with contraband bagged rice and arms on board. The crews, including 16 Vitnamese crew, were arrested. The cargo ship was found with 116,000 sacks of rice. The three other Filipino vessels, which were loaded with 15,000 sacks of imported rice and a dozen of firearms, were also apprehended around the same time, the launch "KH", which was loaded with 7,000 sacks of imported rice, and had 11 crew members and 79 laborers; the launch "Fatima Nurmina", which had 1,000 sacks of rice, an M14 rifle and and M16 rifle with M203, and had 12 crew members and 55 laborers on board; and the launch "Boy", which was loaded with 7,000 sacks of imported rice, and had seven crew members. Also seized inside the "Boy" were six M14 rifles and four M16 rifles.