Leading figure among those arrested is Bui Tien Dung, ex-executive director of Project Management Unit 18 (PMU-18), a Ministry of Transport unit in charge of construction of roads and other infrastructure.
Dung and seven senior Transport Ministry officials have been charged with of embezzling public property.
The Bai Chay Bridge Project was funded by Japanese credits and Vietnamese budget money. The Transport Ministry was the Government designated investor.
The suspects are accused of making ghost payments to consultants to appropriate VND1.6 billion, or almost half of the embezzled amount, and misspending the remainder.
Dung was involved in another bribery and gambling scandal three years ago. He was sentenced to 13 years in prison. Two years later, he was given another three-year sentence for abuse of power. — VNS
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