Vu Quang Hiep, 28, was sentenced to death by a court...

11 December 2003 :

Vu Quang Hiep, 28, was sentenced to death by a court in Hanoi for shooting dead a rival gangster on behalf of a friend trying to reclaim a debt. The killing took place on January 1, 2001, but Hiep fled to China and was only arrested in February 2003 after returning to Hanoi.

(Sources: Agence France Presse, 12/12/2003)

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