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.

Police in HCM City have launched criminal proceedings against a freelance singer and a media company executive for infringing music copyrights on YouTube, as part of a broader crackdown on intellectual property violations in the digital environment.

The People’s Procuracy of Hanoi on August 3 filed charges against 188 defendants, including ringleader Pho Duc Nam, known as Mr Pips, in one of Vietnam’s biggest online investment fraud cases.

Ministry of Public Security has arrested Hoang Trung, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Environment, along with three other officials as part of an expanded investigation into alleged corruption linked to durian exports to China.

Vietnamese police have dismantled an alleged cross-border online fraud network operating in Bokeo Province, Laos, following a joint investigation with Lao authorities that resulted in the arrest of 40 Vietnamese suspects.

Border guards in Nghe An, working with other law enforcement agencies, have dismantled a major cross-border drug trafficking ring, arresting two suspects and seizing 15,200 synthetic drug pills and one brick of heroin under Case NA 126.3.

Hanoi police have charged three officials from the Writers' Association Publishing House in connection with the editing and publication of the book Chuyen voi Thanh - Loi ke moi ve anh sang (Conversations with Thanh - A New Account of the Light).

Vietnam's latest forensic psychiatry scandal has revealed how decorated doctors allegedly exchanged professional integrity for illicit payments from an organized criminal network.

Police in Ho Chi Minh City have charged another 12 suspects in connection with two large-scale football betting syndicates, bringing the total number of people indicted in the investigation to 97.

What began with an unusual cluster of 147 perfect Math scores at a high school in Tuyen Quang has evolved into one of Vietnam's biggest exam integrity investigations, with 19 people now facing criminal charges.

The arrest of PNJ-LAB's director in an alleged diamond smuggling case has sparked questions about whether parent company PNJ could face legal liability.

Hanoi police have charged 3 suspects accused of operating an online marketplace for illegally trading personal data, a platform that allegedly handled more than 53 million transactions and generated over VND400 billion (US$15.3 million) in revenue.