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.

The Hanoi People’s Court sentenced former Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Nguyen Ba Hoan to 12 years in prison on August 24 after a week-long trial.

Hanoi police have dismantled an alleged cross-border money transfer ring involving more than $51 million, with investigators saying the operation used electronic chip transactions and a network of shell companies to disguise illicit fund flows.

Vietnam recorded 959 online fraud cases and about $57 million in losses in the first half of 2026, while more than 200 foreigners were arrested.

Prosecutors have proposed a prison sentence of 12-13 years for Nguyen Ba Hoan, former Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA – now part of the Ministry of Home Affairs) for receiving bribes under Article 354 of the Penal Code.

Police in northern Vietnam’s Phu Tho Province have launched criminal proceedings against a Hanoi man after a young American woman reported that she had been raped during a trip to a resort in July.

HCMC police said on August 17 they had dismantled a large-scale kidney trafficking network that charged up to VND1.5 billion ($57,000) per transplant. Investigators have opened three criminal cases and prosecuted 11 suspects.

Recent police cases across Vietnam have uncovered thousands of counterfeit fashion products, exposing a supply chain stretching from shops and social media to warehouses and factories.

Vietnamese authorities have uncovered 1.193 tons of elephant ivory and nearly 80kg of animal bones concealed in specially modified timber crates inside three containers shipped from the Republic of Congo to Quy Nhon Port.

A social media feud that began with a dispute over charitable donations escalated into confrontational livestreams, a disturbance at a factory and criminal proceedings against three well-known online personalities in northern Vietnam.

A woman has gone on trial in Da Nang accused of murdering her young son and staging the death as an accidental drowning to fraudulently obtain more than VND4.1 billion (US$157,000) in life insurance payouts.