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‘Little Baldy’ first military head to roll in Vietnam’s corruption crackdown

July 31, 2018 by vnexpress Leave a Comment

“Little Baldy,” as the former colonel was known, was convicted of “abusing power in the performance of official duties” and “using fake documents.” He was also banned from taking any government position for four years after serving his jail term. The former colonel is the first senior military official put in jail in a nationwide corruption crackdown that has intensified over the last three years. Scores of high-profile officials and business figures have been scalped, including former Ho Chi Minh City’s Party leader Dinh La Thang, then a member of the Politburo, the Party’s decision-making body. The crackdown was widened earlier this year to include the military and police force. Dinh Ngoc He abused his position as chairman of the defense ministry’s Thai Son Joint Stock Company and his military status to get contracts in key national projects, the indictment said. He also abused his position to obtain military license plates for his company cars and submitted fake university test certificates to the Party in a bid to increase his salary, it said. His four accomplices, all former executives at Thai Son, received up to five years in prison for neglect and abuse of power. Among them, former colonel Bui Van Tiep, former commander of an Air Force division, received a two-year suspended sentence, while former colonel Phung Danh Tham received a two-year probation. The defendants had violated public asset management rules, seriously affecting the prestige of the military and the police, the court said. The sentencing follows the disciplining… [Read full story]




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