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after the poll, but he was arrested after the election on grounds of making illicit currency transactions and jailed by a military court for five years of hard labor. Due to international criticism, he was released after five months.
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officers, rather than an endorsement of his policies. Nevertheless, Thiệu was embarrassed by the results and had him arrested for illicit currency transactions. Dzu was accused of illegally opening a bank account in
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