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The first controversy occurred in April 2020, when the Ministry of Science and Technology claimed that the test had been accepted by the World Health Organization (WHO) for emergency use, despite this not being the case. Although social media users suspected it was a false claim to increase sales and public trust, it took months for the press and the WHO to refute these claims, which led to additional criticism for the slow response. It was later found that the RT-PCR tests were marked up by 45% and sold at a price of US$20. Furthermore, between September and December 2021, Việt Á imported rapid test kits from China at the price of US$0.955 (₫21,600), falsely marketed them as being made in Vietnam, and sold them to local officials for US$20.75 (₫470,000), 21.7 times the original price. To facilitate these markups, the company admitted to having bribed local officials over US$35 million in total to buy the test kits, earning a revenue surpassing $US177 million with an illegitimate profit of $22 million.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Việt_Á_scandal

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