Vietnam Hard On Foreign Criminals Laws

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‘Prison after prison’: Debts trap foreigners in Vietnamese jails

At least 16 foreigners continue to be held over alleged unpaid debts and compensation despite completing jail terms.

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Prison after prison’: Debts trap foreigners in Vietnamese jails​

At least 16 foreigners continue to be held over alleged unpaid debts and compensation despite completing jail terms.

Nigerian Ezeigwe Evaristus Chukwuebuka spent eight years in prison in Vietnam for financial fraud, but found himself doing two more years in a detention centre over unpaid debts [Chris Humphrey/AL Jazeera]
By Chris Humphrey
Published On 17 Jan 202317 Jan 2023



Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – When Ezeigwe Evaristus Chukwuebuka, a Nigerian man, completed his 12-year sentence for financial fraud in Vietnam, he expected to fly home and see his family.
Convicted in 2012, Chukwuebuka was released four years early, having endured hard labour – defined by the Vietnamese authorities as “rehabilitation”. However, instead of getting on a plane to Nigeria, he was transferred to a detention centre an hour southeast of Ho Chi Minh City in Long An province.
Chukwuebuka was detained in the centre for two years, at times held in solitary confinement with his ankles locked in iron shackles as guards pepper-sprayed his face.

 

[FaTaL]

if your going to a foreign country always learn the laws beforehand

 

[Charlie Hustle]

Alot of countries will issue a travel ban if you have a unpaid debt, especially in the middle east.

 

[TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?]

Alot of countries will issue a travel ban if you have a unpaid debt, especially in the middle east.

Yeah this ain't that

 

[Pull Up the Roots]

"Chukwuebuka was detained in the centre for two years, at times held in solitary confinement with his ankles locked in iron shackles as guards pepper-sprayed his face."

This is fukked up.

 

[TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?]

"Chukwuebuka was detained in the centre for two years, at times held in solitary confinement with his ankles locked in iron shackles as guards pepper-sprayed his face."

This is fukked up.

Those Nigerians went through hell

 

[TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?]

if your going to a foreign country always learn the laws beforehand

Tell Passport Pookies that

 

[bnew]

Tye Soon Hin, a 42-year-old Malaysian, was jailed for 12 years alongside two of his fellow citizens for using fake credit cards to steal money in 2014.

Since completing their sentences more than three years ago — also with a reduction — they have been held in the detention centre owing a combined sum of $60,000.

One of the trio, Teh Chee Wan, can afford to repay the money he owes but has been told he cannot be released until all three, who were tried together, have settled their debts.

None of the detainees, however, are allowed to work to repay the funds.

“It feels really unfair,” Hin told Al Jazeera. “I paid the price of the crime that I did, but I am still locked [up] and treated like a prisoner here.”

they got to put travel advisories on countries that operate like this

 

[TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?]

they got to put travel advisories on countries that operate like this

I'm never setting foot in that country
Forget the landmines, these laws are barbarian

 

[CopiousX]

Alot of countries will issue a travel ban if you have a unpaid debt, especially in the middle east.

It's silly if they don't give them a chance to work. It seems like they put a bunch of people with no financial means on infinite lockdown. A part of me thinks they are trying to finesse the money out of their home govts.

 

[TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?]

I was actually surprised to find out there were Nigerians living there

Ok,I wasn't...not really

 

[CopiousX]

I'm never setting foot in that country
Forget the landmines, these laws are barbarian

I actually love their coastlines. They've got these cool looking hills/mountains sticking out of their coasts and lagoons. It looks magical, almost like a psychedelic album cover from the 70s. I think they are worth seeing. Though China has similar ones also if you wanna ditch Vietnam.. I fell in love with their landscape as a kid after watching Bruce Wayne go out there to train during that first Batman movie. I'd love to goa sailing out there .


(But I must admit I'm not excited about the mosquito (s)

Th be honest, I don't particularly care for their culture or their people. Although, I hear their capital is a nice modern looking spot .

 

[El_Mero_Mero]

Fukked up, but also note that in both examples used so far the criminals got out of there sentences early.

 

[CopiousX]

I was actually surprised to find out there were Nigerians living there

Ok,I wasn't...not really

Nigerians are literally everywhere.


I find them no matter where I am globally. They are like indians or Chinese cause of their high population.


When I'm traveling abroad, people tell me that us Americans (and also Germans for some strange reason) are viewed in a similar light of spreading like ants. However , it's more about spare cash for us; whereas Chinese, indians, and Nigerians are seeking new cash.

 

[ignorethis]

Only time I ever saw one of my uncles cry is when he was telling me about his friend that got locked up in China, basically stressing to me how badly they will treat you, so don’t go to jail in China lol.

At first I couldn’t tell if he was crying because his friend was a drug dealer or because his suffering, but then I grew up and found out there are hella drug dealers in Nigeria and nobody cares, not even the police. So I guess it was he missed his bro and felt for him.

But yea committing crime in Asia or the Middle East a no no. But schemers gonna scheme, and not everybody gets to the West, even if they get out the hell that is Nigeria.

My cousin told me that the most the young dudes in Nigeria don’t even want to have legitimate jobs anymore, they only dream of getting to the US or UK, becoming a rich criminal, the returning to live as kings in Africa.

But how can you blame them when the next President of Nigeria might be a former drug lord that got rich selling heroin to the gangs in Chicago. (and in Nigerian circles, he’s considered the actual richest black man on Earth, not Dangote)