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Japan told the Vietnamese government Monday it will temporarily suspend official development assistance due to an alleged bribery case involving a Japanese-funded Hanoi urban railway project, the Japanese embassy here said.
The Japanese government notified Hanoi of the suspension at a bilateral meeting to prevent irregularities, the embassy said, after six Vietnamese railway officials were detained in May over a contract awarded to Tokyo-based Japan Transportation Consultants Inc.
As conditions for resuming ODA, Tokyo required that Hanoi probe whether there was anything illicit regarding contracts involving state-owned Vietnam Railways Corp. or JTC, and to draw up measures to prevent a recurrence, the embassy said.
At the next meeting late this month, the Japanese side will consider whether to resume ODA after studying the outcome of Vietnam's investigation and preventive measures, the embassy said.
At Monday's meeting, Japanese officials notified their Vietnamese counterparts that Tokyo will suspend loans for the first phase of building railway line No. 1 of the urban railway project, the embassy said.
JTC said in April that an independent panel found that it paid 160 million yen in kickbacks to officials involved in projects in Vietnam, Indonesia, Uzbekistan between 2009 and 2014. Its payments to secure an ODA-funded project order in Vietnam were estimated at 66 million yen.
Vietnamese authorities are investigating the matter after detaining six railway officials, including Tran Quoc Dong, a deputy general director of Vietnam Railways.
==Kyodo
Japan to temporarily suspend ODA to Vietnam over bribery case | GlobalPost
The Japanese government notified Hanoi of the suspension at a bilateral meeting to prevent irregularities, the embassy said, after six Vietnamese railway officials were detained in May over a contract awarded to Tokyo-based Japan Transportation Consultants Inc.
As conditions for resuming ODA, Tokyo required that Hanoi probe whether there was anything illicit regarding contracts involving state-owned Vietnam Railways Corp. or JTC, and to draw up measures to prevent a recurrence, the embassy said.
At the next meeting late this month, the Japanese side will consider whether to resume ODA after studying the outcome of Vietnam's investigation and preventive measures, the embassy said.
At Monday's meeting, Japanese officials notified their Vietnamese counterparts that Tokyo will suspend loans for the first phase of building railway line No. 1 of the urban railway project, the embassy said.
JTC said in April that an independent panel found that it paid 160 million yen in kickbacks to officials involved in projects in Vietnam, Indonesia, Uzbekistan between 2009 and 2014. Its payments to secure an ODA-funded project order in Vietnam were estimated at 66 million yen.
Vietnamese authorities are investigating the matter after detaining six railway officials, including Tran Quoc Dong, a deputy general director of Vietnam Railways.
==Kyodo
Japan to temporarily suspend ODA to Vietnam over bribery case | GlobalPost
