Đinh La Thăng (Vietnamese pronunciation: [ʔɗïŋ˧˧ laː˧˧ tʰaŋ˧˧]; 10 September 1960) is a Vietnamese former politician who served as Minister of Transport, Communist Party Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City, and member of the Politburo.

[1][2] On 22 January 2018 he became the first top Party official in several decades to be tried and sentenced to prison for political corruption.

[3] Đinh La Thăng was born in 1960 in Yên Bình Commune, Ý Yên District, Nam Định Province, and graduated from the University of Hanoi's School of Finance and Accounting (now the Academy of Finance[4]).

He was the chairman of the Board of PetroVietnam, the national oil and gas company; Deputy Secretary of the Communist Party of Thừa Thiên–Huế Province (November 2003-December 2005); and Chairman of Song Da Corporation before he became the Minister of Transport.

[8][9] He was arrested on 8 December 2017 for investigation of his mismanagement of PetroVietnam and bribes, resulting in a loss of 800 billion VND (US$35.28 million) from its investment in Oceanbank.