Death sentence could await Vietnam oil executive in corruption trial
Hanoi — The corruption trial of a Vietnamese former oil executive who was allegedly kidnapped from Germany opened on Monday, a high-profile case that can carry the death sentence. Vietnam’s communist government has embarked on a snowballing anticorruption campaign, which observers say is politically driven and mirrors a graft crackdown in neighbouring China. Scores of former officials, bankers and state executives have been arrested or jailed, including a senior banker who has been sentenced to death. On Monday, a court in Hanoi said it had started proceedings against Trinh Xuan Thanh, the former head of state-run PetroVietnam Construction, for alleged mismanagement and embezzlement. Thanh appeared before the court together with former politburo member Dinh La Thang and 20 other senior officials. They are accused of causing $5.2m of losses for the state during an investment by PetroVietnam in the construction of a thermal power plant. German authorities say Thanh was kidnapped from ...
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