Official suspended in connection to PCI scandal

Director of the HCM City Department of Information and Communications Le Manh Ha told VietNamNet that Huynh Ngoc Si, Director of the East West Avenue and Water Environment Project, had been suspended pending investigation.

Si, who is also Deputy Director of the HCM City Department of Transport, is temporarily suspended while investigations are being made of corruption allegations by some officials of Japan’s Pacific Consultants International Company (PCI).


Previously, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung told related agencies to coordinate with Japan to investigate and solve the case in accordance with Vietnamese laws.

According to the November 12 edition of the Japanese daily Yomiuri Shimbun, defendants in a bribery scandal related to the Tokyo-based Pacific Consultants International (PCI) confessed to giving a senior official in HCM City a bribe of US$820,000 in connection with ODA projects in Vietnam.

Source: VNN