Hanoi: A court in Vietnam sentenced a former communications minister to life in prison for receiving millions of dollars in bribes, as the hardline administration presses its anti-graft drive against once-powerful figures in the communist state.
Nguyen Bac Son was charged alongside his then deputy Truong Minh Tuan with receiving US$3.2mil (RM13.2mil) in bribes to approve the 2015 purchase of a TV firm that would have lost state-run telecommunications firm Mobifone US$300mil (RM1.2bil).
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