The former governor of the Vietnamese central bank has been linked to an Australian police investigation for allegedly receiving bribes from a banknote printing company that is half-owned by the Reserve Bank of Australia.
Securency, a joint venture between the RBA and Innovia Films, a UK-based specialist film-maker, has been under investigation by the Australian Federal Police for 20 months over allegations it made payments to agents in a number of countries that are suspected of having been used to pay kickbacks to government officials.
A person with direct knowledge of the probe said Securency had allegedly bribed Le Duc Thuy, the former governor of the State Bank of Vietnam, by paying tens of thousands of dollars in fees for his son to attend an overseas university. When contacted, Mr Thuy declined to comment on the allegations.