Former vice head of Vietnam's Government Office Vu Dinh Thuan has been arrested for involving in economic wrongdoing when implementing a project on computerizing state administration management, local newspaper Saigon Liberation reported Friday.
Thuan, also head of the project's management board, was prosecuted on Thursday by the Investigation Agency under the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security for making use of his position while conducting duties, and intentionally acting counter to state regulations in economic management, resulting in severe consequences.
Thuan and some other officials have been alleged to organize printing documents and then sell them to localities involving in the 2001-2005 project with much higher prices than their real ones for their self-interest.
The officials have caused estimated losses of over 600 billion Vietnamese dong (VND) (37.5 million U.S. dollars) when implementing the project with disbursed capital of trillion VND ( hundreds of millions of dollars).
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has recently decided to stop the project because of its ineffectiveness.
Besides Thuan, seven other officials from the Government Office, Justice Publishing House, and the Book Publication Corporation have also been arrested for the same charges.
Vietnamese ministries and sectors conducted 346 inspection cases in 2006, detecting economic wrongdoing worth 6,267 billion Vietnamese dong (roughly 391.7 million U.S. dollars), nearly 4.2 million dollars, and 395,890 euros (over 475,000 dollars), according to the Government Inspectorate.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Public Security investigated 7,772 economic crimes, of which 338 corruption cases were prosecuted.
Source: Xinhua
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