Between 2018 and 2025, several officials and specialists at the Food Safety Authority allegedly abused legal regulations to solicit and accept bribes in exchange for the appraisal and issuance of various permits.

Whenever an inspection team from the Vietnam Food Safety Authority (VFSA) arrived, businesses would "slip" them money to ensure the results were "smooth."

Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security has concluded a sweeping investigation that uncovered a systematic bribery scheme involving top officials at the Food Safety Authority, part of the Ministry of Health.

The Ministry of Public Security has concluded its investigation into one of Vietnam’s most significant public asset mismanagement cases, recommending charges against 22 individuals.

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Vietnam's updated anti-corruption law strengthens public accountability and annual financial scrutiny.

On the morning of December 9, the Legal and Judicial Committee of Vietnam’s National Assembly called on the government to strengthen efforts to encourage voluntary surrender and pursue suspects who have fled abroad.

General Secretary To Lam, Head of the Central Steering Committee on Anti-Corruption, Wastefulness, and Negative Practices, chaired a meeting of the committee’s standing board at the Party Central Committee headquarters this morning.

Former Deputy Chief of the Office of the National Assembly, Pham Thai Ha, has been sentenced to five years and six months in prison for abusing his position and power to seek personal gain.

The Ministry of Health has submitted a request to revoke the Third-class Labor Order awarded to a prominent mental health director, following his own request.

Tran Van Thuc, ex-director of Thanh Hoa’s education department, has been arrested for alleged document falsification in school admissions.

The Thanh Hoa Provincial Police Department has issued an official notice imposing a temporary overseas travel ban on Do Trong Hung, Deputy Head of the Central Organization Commission and former Party Secretary of Thanh Hoa province.

The director of the Central Highlands Forensic Psychiatry Center has been detained for accepting bribes, sparking investigations into systemic abuse of power.

Seven senior figures, including a former city party secretary and a provincial vice chairman, face prosecution in a widening corruption probe.

The Director of Vietnam’s Food Safety Authority was detained over allegations of bribery linked to health supplement advertising approvals.

18 people face criminal charges in a widening corruption probe involving the Ministry of Health.

The Ministry of Public Security has detained Le Duc Giang and three others amid a deepening investigation into serious violations in mineral resource licensing.

The plan, designed to align with the Party’s directives, aims to embed rigorous controls over power and prevent abuse in managing state resources.

The Ministry of Public Security is investigating high-level executives for bribery and asset misuse.