Hanoi - Vietnamese police revealed more than 5,300 corruption cases in the first half of 2011, up 6.5 per cent year-on-year, state media reported Wednesday.
The cases incurred total losses of 1,848 billion dong (92.4 million dollars), Thanh Tra newspaper quoted national police director Major General Phan Van Vinh as saying.
The rise was attributed to a government clampdown on corruption.
One of the most high-profile cases involved the chief executive of a subsidiary of the country's largest state-owned commercial bank Agribank, who was arrested on suspicion of taking bribes worth 3.6 million dollars from a local company in return for approving loans.
Government officials supposedly safeguarding the system are in fact a large part of the problem, experts at a conference on corruption between the Swedish, Danish and Vietnamese governments said in November.
