Friday, May 21, 2021, 16:02 GMT+7
Defendant Le Thi Lieu is seen at her trial at the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court on May 20, 2021. Photo: Danh Trong / Tuoi Tre
A businesswoman has been sentenced to five years in prison for organizing the illegal exit of nine people on an outbound flight of the then-Vietnamese National Assembly chairperson in 2018.
The Ho Chi Minh People’s Court on Thursday tried Le Thi Lieu, former director of GVA Joint Stock Company, and her seven accomplices in the case.
Lieu, determined to be the mastermind of the illegal sending of nine people under the cover of business people to South Korea, was charged with arranging for people to flee abroad illegally.