Trinh Xuan Thanh (centre) is led to a courtroom by police in Hanoi on Monday. (Doan Tan/ Vietnam News Agency via AP)HANOI: A former oil executive has been sentenced to life in prison and a former high-ranking Vietnamese government official has received a lengthy prison term in a major corruption case. Thang was the first Politburo member to be jailed in decades. Trinh Xuan Thanh, an ex-chairman of PetroVietnam's construction arm, was given life imprisonment for embezzlement. The two were among 22 defendants, most of them current or former oil executives.

Source: Bangkok Post January 22, 2018 04:07 UTC