03 June 2004 :

One of Vietnam's most notorious gangsters, Truong Van Cam, better known as Nam Cam, was executed for murder and bribery along with four of his men.
Nam Cam had been sentenced to death in June 2003, and lost an appeal later in the year. He had been convicted of ordering the killing of an underworld rival and trying to bribe state officials. He had been tried along with more than 150 co-defendants, including officials who profited from his illicit dealings.
"They were shot at dawn, around 5:30am, and buried at the site," said a police official in Ho Chi Minh City.
A sixth member of Nam Cam's gang had his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment during appeal.
Among those tried with the gang were the former head of state radio who had been a member of the Communist Party's powerful central committee, a disgraced deputy chief prosecutor and a former deputy police minister.
In his appeal, Nam Cam had denied ordering the October 2000 killing of a rival, Dung Ha, who controlled a vast crime network in northern Vietnam.
"At first I admitted my responsibility for the murder of Dung Ha because my lawyer said I could then be eligible for clemency," he told the VnExpress online newspaper in 2003. "But I think the death penalty handed to me is unjust and so I am appealing."