HANOI, Vietnam - Vietnamese police have arrested two senior executives at a major state-owned shipping company and issued a warrant for its chief for alleged mismanagement in another high-profile scandal, state media reported.
Police
on Friday searched the house and office of Duong Chi Dung, former
chairman of Vietnam National Shipping Lines, or Vinalines, but did not
find him, the Laborer newspaper said Saturday. State media had reported
earlier that he had been arrested.
Two
other company executives were taken into custody. They are accused of
causing huge losses to the state after purchasing old ships and making
poor investments.
Dung was promoted in February to head the government's Maritime Department.
The
arrests come more than a month after nine senior executives of another
major state-owned company, the Vietnam Shipbuilding Industrial Group,
or Vinashin, were given lengthy jail sentences following a scandal that
resulted in the lowering of Vietnam's credit rating.
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