AFP, reports that Vietnam's transport minister was under increasing pressure on Saturday with state media publicly calling for his resignation amid a massive corruption scandal in his ministry.The scandal involves public servants stealing millions of dollars in state funds earmarked for construction projects, most of it from Japan and other foreign donors. Corrupt officials of the Project Management Unit (PMU) 18 bet some of the money on top English and Spanish league football matches. Others allegedly skimmed money off public construction projects, took kickbacks from lucrative state contracts and used official cars as gifts to pay off business contacts, media reports said.
The department former director general, Bui Tien Dung, and some other officials have been arrested and deputy transport minister Nguyen Viet Tien was suspended Wednesday.
