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The Ministry of Public Security said on its website that the People’s Supreme Procuracy approved prosecution orders against Truong Minh Tuan, former minister of information and communications, and his predecessor Nguyen Bac Son for “violating regulations on management and use of state investment capital causing serious consequences,” and that police were speeding up their investigation into the case.

He said there was “enormous dissatisfaction among many judges at the restrictive, anti-Western legal values being imposed by President Xi Jinping, with many younger officials leaving the courts and procuracy for work in law firms, business and teaching.”

In January, Vietnam’s Supreme People’s Procuracy issued a letter to the Khanh Hoa authorities—again at Ha’s urging—making clear that they should prosecute Hai.

Representatives from Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Ministry of Public Security, Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment, Directorate of Fisheries, and Supreme People's Procuracy either did not respond to interview requests, declined to answer questions for this story, or passed the buck.

Le Dinh Hoan, Division 3 head of the Khanh Hoa Procuracy, asked National Geographic to call back after his lunch break but subsequently didn’t answer the phone.