HANOI: More than 50 officials went on trial in Vietnam on Tuesday for alleged corruption over repatriation flights during the coronavirus pandemic, a scandal that has seen several senior ministers fired.

The case is part of a major anti-corruption drive that led to then-president Nguyen Xuan Phuc's sudden resignation earlier this year — an unprecedented move in communist Vietnam, where political changes are normally carefully orchestrated.

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