When Vietnamese prosecutors indicted the leadership of Nam Trieu Company for allegedly inflating the prices of interrogation chairs and other specialized law-enforcement equipment, domestic media predictably focused on the headline figure of more than 18 billion dong (US$710,000) in state losses. Yet the significance of the case goes well beyond the financial losses alleged in […]
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