The disgraced Vietnamese executive has appeared this week at an appeals hearing in Hanoi together with other former Vinalines directors in a bid to overturn a fraud conviction.

However, Dung admitted deliberately violating state regulations on economic management and mismanaging the purchase of a floating dock.

Ex-general director Mai Van Phuc and former director of Vinalines Ship Repair company Tran Hai Son also admitted mismanagement relating to the dock deal, which prosecutors allege was a front for multi-million dollar fraud.

But