HANOI, Vietnam – Vietnamese prosecutors are seeking long jail terms for former oil company executives accused of mismanagement or embezzlement, including a former senior Communist Party official and an official whom government agents allegedly kidnapped from Germany.
Prosecutors on Thursday recommended 14-15 years in prison for former Politburo member Dinh La Thang, ex-chairman of state-owned energy giant PetroVietnam, on charges of violating management regulations by choosing PetroVietnam's Construction Joint Stock Co., or PVC, to build a thermo power plant without a proper bidding and appraisal process.
They requested life imprisonment on embezzlement charges for former PVC chairman Trinh Xuan Thanh, who Germany claims was snatched from a Berlin park by Vietnam's intelligence service.
They are among 22 defendants, most of them current or former senior oil executives, in the country's highest-profile corruption case.
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