Ex-police officer jailed for accepting bribe

07:09, 18/09/2011

A former lieutenant-colonel with Dong Nai province Police was sentenced to five years' jail for taking a bribe of VND10 million ($485).

Bị cáo Trần Ngọc Anh tại phiên xét xử hình sự sơ thẩm ngày 14-9.
Former lieutenant-colonel Tran Ngoc Anh
A former lieutenant-colonel with Dong Nai province Police was sentenced to five years' jail for taking a bribe of VND10 million ($485).

Police said Tran Ngoc Anh was in charge of investigating a murder in Tan Phu district in 2009 that involved six people.

Anh was alleged to have helped the wife of one jailed suspect to visit him many times without permission from provincial police.

(Source: VNS)