One of Vietnam's wealthiest people was ousted
from the communist parliament Saturday, reports said, after she was accused of
failing to disclose that her Vietnamese-American husband was wanted for fraud.
Dang
Thi Hoang Yen, chairwoman of industrial park developer Tan Tao Group, lost her
seat on the 500-member national assembly after a vote that saw 457 deputies in
support of her sacking, according to the Thanh Nien newspaper.
Earlier
reports in the state-sanctioned media claimed Yen -- who was ranked Vietnam's
37th-wealthiest individual in 2011, according to stock-market holdings, and was
in the top 10 from 2008 to 2010 -- failed to alert authorities to the fact her
husband was wanted by the police.
She is
married to Vietnamese-American Jimmy Tran, who now lives in the US. In 2010,
the 57-year-old Tran was accused of "abusing trust to appropriate
assets" at a private company.
Yen,
53, also omitted to mention that she was a member of the ruling communist party
in her first application to be a parliamentary candidate, reports said.
Under
Vietnamese law, a parliamentarian can be removed for making false declarations
on their application for the post.
Publicity
surrounding the case could point to a political campaign against her, perhaps
by those jealous of her wealth and success, analysts say.
AFP
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