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Vietnamese railway officials stand trial for receiving bribery

Xinhua, October 26, 2015 Adjust font size:

Six officials of Vietnamese railway sector are standing trial for allegations of receiving some 11 billion Vietnamese dong (nearly 504,600 U.S. dollars) in Hanoi's urban railway construction project Line 1, involving a Japanese company.

The trial opened Monday in Vietnam's capital Hanoi. The officials have been prosecuted for "abusing power while on duty" at Railway Project Management Unit (RPMU) under Vietnam Railways Corporation (VNR), reported Vietnam's state-run radio Voice of Vietnam (VOV).

The six defendants include Tran Quoc Dong (former deputy general director of VNR, former RPMU director), Tran Van Luc (former RPMU director), Nguyen Van Hieu (former RPMU director), Pham Hai Bang (former RPMU deputy director), Pham Quang Duy (former RPMU deputy director), and Nguyen Nam Thai (former RPMU project manager).

According to the indictment, in 2009, VNR signed a consultation contract with Japan Transportation Consultants, Inc. (JTC) over a project on construction of number 1 urban railway route in Vietnam.

The Vietnamese officials received money from JTC during Sept. 2009 to Feb. 2014, reported VOV.

The trial is scheduled to last till Tuesday. Enditem