Authorities have launched criminal proceedings against 10 individuals for a bribery case involving tens of billions of VND, and hundreds of thousands of USD, at the Consular Department under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Update: December, 11/2020 - 15:37 | Nguyễn Đức Chung (sitting between two police officers), former Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee, listened to the judges verdict at Hà Nội People s Court in a closed trial on Friday. VNA/VNS Photo Doãn Tấn HÀ NỘI The Hà Nội People’s Court on Friday sentenced Nguyễn Đức Chung, 53, former Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee, to five years in prison on charges of “appropriating confidential State documents”. Phạm Quang Dũng, a former officer at the Investigation Police Department for Corruption, Smuggling and Economic Crimes under the Ministry of Public Security, was given a jail term of four years and six months, while Nguyễn Hoàng Trung, a former officer of the Hà Nội Department of Public Security and Chung’s driver; and Nguyễn Anh Ngọc, former deputy head of Cầu Giấy District’s division of public security and