Ex-Hanoi chairman detained in Covid test kit scandal

Chu Ngoc Anh, former chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee. Photo by VnExpress/Ngoc Thanh

Former Hanoi chairman Chu Ngoc Anh was arrested Tuesday for mismanagement involving a Covid-19 test kit fraud, hours after he was dismissed from his position.

Anh was expelled from the Communist Party on Monday.

The Party's agencies concluded that Anh had violated the Party and the State's regulations, "causing severe consequences, losses to the money and assets of the State, undermining the Covid-19 fight, causing social unrest and affecting the reputation of the Party, the health ministry and science ministry."

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