Twenty-eight officials and employees at institutions affiliated with four Vietnamese ministries and agencies have been prosecuted for allegedly manipulating monitoring results and improperly collecting samples to issue certificates. 

Ho Chi Minh City police have arrested five people accused of posing as sellers, investors and businesspeople to pass off ordinary pebbles as meteorites worth millions of dollars.

Police in Thanh Hoa have detained eight suspects in an investigation into allegedly fake An Cung products and cosmetics advertised as foreign imports, with goods estimated at more than 1,000 tonnes.

Border guards in Vietnam’s An Giang province have recovered two packages containing about 40kg of white crystals suspected to be drugs after they washed ashore in the Phu Quoc special zone.

From digital media and esports to urban landscaping and technology retail, several once-prominent Vietnamese entrepreneurs have become wanted suspects in criminal cases.

Bui Ba Hien, former CEO of esports and digital media company Box Vietnam, is wanted by police over alleged copyright infringement after once pursuing ambitious expansion plans.

Police in northern Vietnam have issued a wanted notice for Box Vietnam CEO Bui Ba Hien after he was charged with alleged copyright and related-rights infringement under the country’s Criminal Code.

Quang Ninh police and the Ministry of Public Security have dismantled a major criminal ring involved in online fraud, illegal trading of personal data and money laundering.

Police in central Vietnam arrested a group of foreign suspects just an hour after two of them allegedly staged a distraction to steal gold worth VND208 million ($7,900) from a jewelry shop.

Nguyen Huy Ngoc, vice chairman of Phu Tho Province in northern Vietnam, has been charged and detained over allegations of accepting large bribes, according to the Ministry of Public Security.

Vietnam Satellite Digital Television (VSTV/K+) has preliminarily estimated that copyright infringement linked to the Xoi Lac TV piracy case caused it losses of more than $83 million.

A routine check on a South Korean man in Hanoi led police to discover that he was wanted by Interpol in connection with alleged fraud.

Investigators have completed their investigation into a case involving infringement of copyright and related rights, organizing gambling, gambling and distribution of obscene materials, uncovered in Hung Yen in February 2026.

Recent murder cases have raised troubling questions after investigators found that several victims had no prior connection or conflict with the people accused of attacking them.

Viet My Medical won 246 procurement packages worth nearly $226 million from 2018 to 2026 before an investigation widened to include Deputy Health Minister Tran Van Thuan.

Tran Van Thuan, a deputy health minister who oversaw major hospitals and key areas of Vietnam’s healthcare system, has been arrested in an expanded bribery investigation.

Hanoi police have dismantled a large-scale network accused of trafficking and repackaging liquid containing the drug Etomidate as vaping products, with transactions through related bank accounts totaling about $3.8 million.

Ho Chi Minh City police have arrested three South Korean nationals wanted under Interpol Red Notices and handed them over to South Korean authorities at Tan Son Nhat International Airport.

Vietnam’s booming social commerce market is exposing a costly weakness: consumers buying on trust as influencers turn cheap products into supposedly premium regional specialties.