Former Deputy Minister Nguyen Ba Hoan faces 12-13 years in prison
The first-instance trial for Hoan and 27 other defendants involved accepting bribes, brokering bribes, and accounting violations, and moved to the debate stage on August 20.
Former Deputy Minister Nguyen Ba Hoan, 27 others stand trial in bribery case
Among the 28 defendants, former Deputy Minister Nguyen Ba Hoan; Le Thanh Ha, former head of the Vietnamese workers management board at the Vietnamese Embassy in the Republic of Korea; and seven former personnel of the MoLISA Department of Overseas Labour are charged with receiving bribes under Article 354 of the Penal Code.