A court in Vietnam on Friday jailed 30 people, including several former senior officials, over graft that cost the state $45 million, with one ex-official convicted of taking suitcases stuffed with cash bribes.
The communist nation’s crackdown on corruption in recent years has seen two presidents and three deputy prime ministers deposed and top business leaders taken down.
According to media report, a Hanoi court announced verdicts for 30 former officials and 11 businesspeople charged with bribery, abuse of power, and violating bidding and contracting laws.
Thirty of the 41 were convicted of corruption that prosecutors said caused damages worth more than 1.16 trillion dong ($44.6 million) to the state.