Vietnam police probe oil executive in widened crackdown
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December 21, 2017
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnamese police have officially started investigating a former chief executive of state-owned energy giant PetroVietnam amid a widened crackdown on corruption.
The Ministry of Public Security said in a statement Wednesday that police also placed Phung Dinh Thuc under house arrest. Thuc is suspected of "deliberately violating state economic regulations causing serious consequences" in his role at a thermo power plant, the statement said.
Thuc was general director of PetroVietnam from 2008 to 2010 and chairman of the board from 2011 until his retirement in 2014.
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