Vietnam prosecutors seek jail terms for former oil execs

Published January 11, 2018

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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