HANOI: Vietnam´s former health minister was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Friday while dozens of other health officials and business people were handed jail terms for their roles in.
HANOI A court in Vietnam jailed two former Cabinet ministers on Jan 12 and found dozens of officials guilty of bribery and mismanagement for their roles in a coronavirus test kit scandal, the Ministry of Public Security said. Former health minister Nguyen Thanh Long was sentenced to 18 years in prison for taking bribes worth US$2.25 million (S$3 million),.
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A former Vietnam Health Minister, Nguyen Thanh Long, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for taking bribes in a coronavirus test kit scandal. Long was accused of receiving $2.25 million, a Reuters report said. Long who was sentenced by a court in Vietnam on Friday was involved in the scandal, in which a local firm was accused of colluding with officials to commission a state-funded research unit to produce and overstate its prices of coronavirus test kits, Phap Luat Online newspaper said.