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Vietnam police launch probe in Japan bribery case: state media
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HANOI (AFP) - - Vietnamese police have begun a formal investigation into a corruption case that led Japan last week to suspend soft-loan aid to the communist country, state media reported Wednesday.
The ambassador of Japan, the largest bilateral donor to Vietnam, on Friday said official development assistance (ODA) loans would be frozen until Vietnam took "effective and meaningful measures against corruption".
Ambassador Mitsuo Sakaba asked for better police co-operation over the case of Tokyo-based Pacific Consultants International (PCI), whose former executives have admitted in a Japanese court to bribing a senior Vietnamese official.
Police in Vietnam have now launched a probe into PCI's claims against Huynh Ngoc Sy, the Ho Chi Minh City senior transport official named in the Tokyo trial, who was suspended from his post last month, state media reported.
"The Ministry of Public Security's police investigators have launched legal proceedings in a case of alleged bribery relating to Huynh Ngoc Sy," said the state-run Vietnam News Agency.
The report said, "Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has instructed the Vietnamese authorities to work closely alongside relevant Japanese agencies in investigating and handling the case in accordance with Vietnamese law."
Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun daily newspaper in November reported that four former PCI executives had admitted paying 820,000 dollars in bribes to Sy.
Prosecutors charged that PCI had promised Sy a total of 2.6 million dollars for favours in awarding consulting contracts to the firm in connection with Japanese ODA-financed road projects.
Sy was deputy director of the Ho Chi Minh City transport department and oversaw the East-West Highway Project, the city's largest infrastructure development with 22 kilometres (14 miles) of roads and tunnels.
Japan last year pledged more than one billion dollars in ODA to Vietnam and has been studying several other major infrastructure projects, including a new north-south transnational railway and highway, and a high-tech industrial park.
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