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Former officials stand trial in Lao Cai 

Jump to full article: Vietnam News Agency (VNA), 2008-02-29

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The trial of a former provincial people's committee member; senior customs and police officers and company executives for alleged tobacco smuggling started in the Lao Cai Provincial Court on Wednesday. . . .

Prosecutors told the judges that Nguyen Thi Lien had help establish the Thien Loi Hoa Company which had duplicated import contracts with a Chinese company to bring illegal tobacco leaf into Viet Nam after quotas were introduced in 2004.

The company had imported at least 14,000 tonnes of tobacco

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