Death for corrupt cashier

Wed, 10 Jul 1996, 00:00 WIB | 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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