Samoan national Joseph Vaa has confessed to shooting and killing suspected Coconut Cartel leader Lorenzo Lemalu in a video posted by the Vietnamese police, while Steve Tofa confessed to being his accomplice.A video posted by the Vietnamese television channel VTV9 shows Vaa and Tofa in handcuffs a...
By Shalveen Chand
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26 May 2026, 7:30PM
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Two Samoan nationals suspected of being involved in a shooting targeting a group of Australian nationals were arrested by police…
Two Samoans have become the subject of an international manhunt after the assassination of a suspected Australian gang member in…
In a rare gun crime in Vietnam, the suspect admitted that he and an accomplice were in Ho Chi Minh City looking for two victims.
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Vietnamese police are questioning the pair over the shooting of senior Coconut Cartel member Lorenzo Laemalu.
