One of Vietnam’s biggest tech firms, VNG, which operates the popular social messaging app Zalo and makes video games, has appointed Canadian Kelly Wong acting CEO after a police raid of its office in Ho Chi Minh City yesterday, Tuoi Tre is reporting. Wong will be stepping up from his role as the company’s Vice President.
It is still not clear why VNG’s offices were raided. Everything has been very vague as it usually is in Vietnam. This move would suggest, however, that the former CEO Le Hong Minh has a key role to play in whatever investigation is taking place.