Việt Á scandal
Corruption scandal in Vietnam / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Việt Á scandal was a Việt Á Technology Corporation [vi] scheme in 2020 and 2021 bribing Vietnamese government officials to sell COVID-19 RT-PCR tests, and later import rapid tests falsely marketed as locally made, at a heavy mark-up to provincial health departments and hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic in Vietnam. The discovery of this corruption in late 2021 led to a number of prominent officials being dismissed, including Nguyễn Thanh Long, health minister for most of the pandemic, and reduced public trust in the government. The scandal led to a wider crackdown on corruption in Vietnam, contributed to the removal of deputy prime ministers Phạm Bình Minh and Vũ Đức Đam, and to the resignation of president Nguyễn Xuân Phúc in 2023.