Vietnamese police detained another senior railway official on Thursday for his involvement in an alleged bribery case, in which the leader of a Japanese consultant firm said it had paid over US$780,000 in kickbacks in exchange for an ODA-funded project order in Vietnam.
>> Vietnam arrests 4 railway officials in alleged $780,000 Japanese bribe scandal >> Vietnam railway official suspended indefinitely over alleged $780,000 Japanese bribe >> Vietnamese railway officials deny involvement in alleged $780k graft case >> Vietnam, Japan to jointly handle alleged $780k bribery Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper reported in March that Tamio Kakinuma, president of Japan Transportation Consultants, Inc. (JTC), had admitted allegations that the firm paid ¥80 million ($782,640) in bribes in return for an ODA (official development assistance) project order worth ¥4.2 billion ($41,088,600) in Vietnam.
In two articles published on March 20 and 21, the Japanese newspaper alleged that JTC bribed civil servants in Vietnam, Indonesia, and Uzbekistan from February 2008 to February of this year with ¥130 million ($1,271,790) in order to receive orders for five Japanese ODA-funded projects in these countries.
The railway line No. 1 (the Yen Vien-Ngoc Hoi route) of the Hanoi urban railway project has been in the spotlight following these reports.
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