Death for corrupt cashier

Wed, 10 Jul 1996 | Source: REUTERS

HANOI (Reuter): A court in southern Vietnam's An Giang province has sentenced a cashier at a local agricultural firm to death on charges of embezzling some $138,000.

Thanh Nien (Youth) newspaper said Nguyen Nhan Tai had been entrusted with the money to buy fertilizer but escaped instead across the border into Cambodia.

He was sentenced on June 22, and under Vietnamese law has the right to appeal. Executions are rarely reported.

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