{"id":45214,"date":"2024-01-19T14:12:43","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T22:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sweet-pascal.52-27-215-206.plesk.page\/vietnams-former-minister-of-commerce-accused-of-wrongdoings-in-oil-deals\/"},"modified":"2024-01-19T14:12:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T22:12:43","slug":"vietnams-former-minister-of-commerce-accused-of-wrongdoings-in-oil-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/vietnams-former-minister-of-commerce-accused-of-wrongdoings-in-oil-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam\u2019s former minister of commerce accused of \u2018wrongdoings\u2019 in oil deals"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Politburo member who is the son of a former state president is under investigation by the Vietnam Communist Party\u2019s Central Inspection Committee for suspected wrongdoings in his dealings with the oil and gas industry while he was minister of commerce.<\/span><\/p>\n

As minister from 2016 to 2021, Tran Tuan Anh was responsible for \u201cwrong advice\u201d in the issuance of the mechanism for the development of solar energy and wind power under the country\u2019s ambitious plan to transition away from coal usage, according to state media reports.<\/span><\/p>\n

Additionally, officials under the ministry\u2019s management also committed wrongdoings in the issuance of the trading mechanism for petroleum, the management of Vietnam\u2019s oil supply and the bidding process for projects with the Advanced International Joint Stock Company, or AIC, the reports said.<\/span><\/p>\n

AIC has been involved in the import of corporate electronics, pharmaceuticals, auto parts, machine tools and farm equipment.<\/span><\/p>\n

The company\u2019s former chairwoman and general director, Nguyen Thi Thanh Nhan, has been accused of masterminding bid-rigging to win 16 contracts to supply medical equipment to several Vietnamese hospitals. She fled to Germany in 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tran Tuan Anh, left, and Britain\u2019s then-International Trade Secretary Liz Truss at the signing ceremony for a trade agreement in Hanoi, Dec. 11, 2020. (Kham\/Reuters)<\/p>\n

The Central Inspection Committee reported on the accusations against Tran Tuan Anh to the party\u2019s Politburo and Secretariat this week, with a recommendation that he be \u201cappropriately penalized,\u201d state media reported.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The committee\u2019s report also named former deputy Minister of Commerce Do Thang Hai, who was <\/span>arrested on Dec. 21<\/span><\/a> for allegedly taking bribes from the Xuyen Viet Oil Company.<\/span><\/p>\n

Former Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung and Hoang Quoc Vuong, who also served as deputy minister of commerce and was the board chairman of state-owned PetroVietnam, were also named in the report, according to state media.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anh is the latest Politburo member to face punishment for wrongdoings under the party\u2019s \u201cBlazing Furnace\u201d anti-corruption campaign.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

His father, Tran Duc Luong, was state president between 1997 and 2006.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2019, Anh wrote a public apology letter after it became known that his wife and son were picked up in a state-owned car after a Vietnam Airlines flight.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Edited by Matt Reed and Malcolm Foster.<\/p>\n

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A Politburo member who is the son of a former state president is under investigation by the Vietnam Communist Party\u2019s Central Inspection Committee for suspected wrongdoings in his dealings with the oil and gas industry while he was minister of commerce. As minister from 2016 to 2021, Tran Tuan Anh was responsible for \u201cwrong advice\u201d …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":45215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,239],"tags":[246,251],"class_list":["post-45214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","category-vietnam","tag-english","tag-rfa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}