Vietnam jails 30 people for graft worth US$45mil


Nguyen Van Hau, chairman of the Phuc Son Group spent over US$5 million bribing officials to win contracts in over a dozen multi-billion-dollar infrastructure projects in three provinces. - VNA

HANOI:  A court in Vietnam on Friday (July 11) jailed 30 people including several former senior officials over graft that cost the state US$45 million, with one ex-official convicted of taking suitcases stuffed with cash bribes.

The communist nation's crackdown on corruption in recent years has seen two presidents and three deputy prime ministers deposed and top business leaders taken down.

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