Mass Trials<\/strong><\/h2>\nThanh got off lightly \u2013 in September, ex-PetroVietnam chairman Nguyen Xuan Son was sentenced to death for embezzlement in a trial that included 51 defendents.<\/p>\n
While corruption has long been embedded in the system in Vietnam, human rights groups are concerned that the government is using the drive as a pretext to arrest political opponents and critics of the regime on trumped up charges.<\/p>\n
“The question is what do these trials mean, not simply for corruption per se, but for the direction of Vietnamese politics and the way in which the party operates the state?” Jonathan London, an expert in Vietnam at Leiden University in the Netherlands, told the LA Times <\/em>recently.<\/p>\n“Many people in Vietnam perceive what is occurring as not just an anti-corruption campaign, but a political purge.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Vietnamese state-controlled media has announced the arrest of a former head of the country’s High-Technology Police Department, on suspicion of organizing an international gambling ring. Nguyen Thanh Hoa, 60, was arrested on Sunday as part of an online gambling and money laundering case. Hoa was\u00a0stripped of his “people’s police” title by the nation’s Communist leader […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":72669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Vietnamese Regime Arrests Police Chief in Gambling and Corruption Bust<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n