Vietnam Sentences Ex-Gov’t. Worker to Death for Embezzlement

A Hanoi court sentenced the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology’s former chief accountant to death after Nguyen Hoang was convicted of embezzling more than 152 billion dong ($6.2 million), according to a posting on the Vietnam government’s website. Hoang was found guilty of committing theft between March 2009 and February 2023, the statement said. He hid his activities by modifying financial statements from 2009 to 2017, it added. The use of the death penalty for financial crimes has come under the spotlight in recent months after real estate tycoon...