PMU 18 scandal

The PMU 18 scandal is a multi-million dollar political corruption scandal that involved accusations of embezzlement, bribery, nepotism, and gambling at the Vietnamese Ministry of Transport (Bộ Giao thông Vận tải, GTVT) at the beginning of 2006. The scandal received extensive press coverage in Vietnam, a rarity in the one-party state. It generated a great public outcry in Vietnam and controversy in other countries and at organizations that provided Official Development Assistance (ODA) to the country. Due to the scandal, Transport Minister Đào Đình Bình was forced to resign and his deputy was arrested. The scandal became a major issue leading up to the Tenth National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam, when the government leadership was being reviewed.

In the aftermath of the scandal, the Vietnamese government clamped down on journalists reporting on the case. Two prominent journalists were tried and convicted of "abusing democratic freedoms" and propagating "false information". Two police officers involved in the case were also convicted of "disclosing work secrets".

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PMU

PMU may refer to:

Paracelsus Private Medical University of Salzburg

Pari mutuel urbain, the French state-controlled betting system (it sponsors the green jersey in the Tour de France**until 2014))

Performance Monitoring Unit, a logical component of modern processors that can be configured to monitor (count) various types of performance-related hardware events

Periyar Maniammai University

Permanent makeup

Phasor measurement unit, a device which measures phasors of AC quantities (voltage, current) in sync with a common time source (usually using a GPS radio clock)

Police MRT Unit of the Singapore Police Force

Pomeranian Medical University

Power Management Unit, an integrated circuit on some computers that controls sleeping, waking from sleep, hard drive spin down, and other power-related features

Pregnant mare urine

Presbyterian Missionary Union

Prince Mohammad bin Fahd University

Progressive Muslim Union

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