THE health minister and the mayor of the capital Hanoi have both been stripped of their Communist Party membership, the party said, following accusations they were involved in a US$172mil (RM756mil) coronavirus test kit scandal.
The expulsions come as the communist nation ramps up an anti-corruption drive in the wake of the Viet A scandal, in which officials were bribed to supply hospitals with vastly overpriced Covid-19 test kits.
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