A tour operator is under investigation over allegations she illegally sent people to work abroad.

More than 86,700 criminal cases have been detected and prosecuted in 2022, up 2.4 per cent from the previous year. The procuracy sector has received and handled nearly 145,000 sources of information about crimes.

Emerging crimes are in areas of securities, corporate bond issuance, violations in bidding, auction and public procurement activities.

Hang Bong Ward’s police on Thursday said they have detained a taxi driver who is alleged to have stolen two smartphones from Russian tourists in Hanoi on Thursday morning.

The prime minister has decided to fire Deputy Minister of Health Truong Quoc Cuong for his serious violations while on duty.

A number of agencies have recently discovered multiple smuggling and drug trafficking cases that were handling large quantities.

Viet A Technology Corporation has been found to have imported three million rapid Covid-19 test kits named Novel Coronavirus 2019-nCoV Antigen Test (Colloidal Gold) from China at US$0.995, or VND21,560 per kit in the last four months of last year.

Hanoi’s People's Court on Thursday opened the first instance trial on the inflation of prices of medical equipment in Bach Mai Hospital, one of the biggest hospitals in Vietnam under the management of the Ministry of Health.

A suspected bank robber has been arrested days after posting photographs of himself on Facebook posing with a US$32,000 motorbike he purchased a day after the robbery.

Many well-known businesspeople have ended up in prison.

The Department of Public Security of southern Long An province has decided to commence legal proceedings against individuals involved in wrongdoings at “Tinh that bong lai”, a family Buddhist worship place.

The PM has asked the Ministry of Public Security to coordinate with other relevant agencies and localities to speed up and expand the investigation into the price gouging of Covid-19 test kits at the Viet A Technology Corporation. 

The Ministry of Science and Technology has apologized for incorrectly announcing that Viet A Technology Corporation’s Covid-19 test kit was approved by the World Health Organization (WHO).

During a group discussion at the latest National Assembly session, President Nguyen Xuan Phuc said that many people got rich thanks to land, but many others have been imprisoned due to land.

Many wrongdoings related to land auctions and bids have been exposed recently. Most of the defendants in the land irregularity cases are high-ranking officials of agencies and institutions.

Nguyen Thi Loan, Chau Thi Thu Nga, Pham Thi Tuyet Nhung and Truong Thi Kim Soan, once famous businesswomen in the real estate market, have had to pay for their illegal business affairs.

The Hanoi Police have prosecuted and detained Nguyen Thi Loan, Chairwoman of Vimedimex Medi-Pharma JSC, for alleged violations of land auction regulations.

The Drug-related Crime Investigation Police Department under the Ministry of Public Security warned that many foreigners have been taking advantage of traveling to Vietnam to commit a drug crime.

Tokyo prosecutors have decided not to ask the supreme court to review a case involving a 9-year-old Vietnamese girl, who was killed in Chiba prefecture in 2017.