After being tipped off, Vietnam police caught red-handed Sunday a journalist of a newspaper in Hanoi trying to extort money from a local business.
Initial investigations showed Nguyen Hung Son, correspondent of the Hanoi-based Dien Dan Doanh Nghiep (Business Forum) newspaper, had coerced the Hai Van international transport company to offer him a bribery totaling US$10,000, otherwise Son would leak out information tainting the company’s reputation.
Son’s bold-faced proposal infuriated the company’s management, prompting them to report the case to the police to have him arrested.
The police also said Son had adopted the same trick for the ABC transportation company, also in Hanoi, but stopped short of revealing whether Son had received any kickbacks from them.
