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At The anti‑fraud campaign launched at the end of July 2026 Vietnam intensified its anti‑fraud campaign. has deepened. On 28 July authorities announced a nationwide crackdown that included new banking guidelines to flag suspicious transfers, the detention of a deputy minister of agriculture and environment for detained Deputy Minister Hoàng Trung on bribery and document falsification, and large seizures of counterfeit goods, illegal document‑falsification charges tied to durian export permits, and permits. In the same operation, Nguyễn Thị Thư, director of the Sy Hưng seafood company, was charged with massive tax evasion, bribery, smuggling operations. The measures targeted money‑laundering, counterfeit product circulation, and corruption across several ministries invoice fraud; police seized 13 vehicles, about 16 tonnes of goods, cash and provinces. assets valued at roughly VND 10 trillion. The following day, 29 July, anti‑corruption police detailed the investigation of Deputy Minister Hoàng Trung of code‑fraud scheme behind the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. Investigators said he and other officials participated surge in a scheme that manipulated durian shipments, explaining how planting‑area and packaging‑facility codes required for durian exports, allowing were illegally traded to allow exports far beyond the legally approved quotas. The scandal involved the illicit trading of code numbers, with each code fetching a high price and enabling the export of up to 1.3 million tonnes against a 2022 quota of durian despite limited approved cultivation area. Exporters reported widespread fraud, prompting further scrutiny 68 000 tonnes. The Vietnam Fruit and Vegetables Association confirmed a wave of complaints from exporters about the illicit code market. Together, the snapshots show actions illustrate a coordinated effort by Vietnamese authorities to root out systemic fraud in the durian export sector crackdown on money‑laundering, counterfeit documentation, and related corruption, expanding from broad product seizures to a focused probe of the code‑fraud network behind high‑level corruption linking the country's fruit trade. trade, seafood smuggling and broader export fraud networks.