Ayumi Konishi, the Asia Development Bank's regional manager for Vietnam, says the government's success in steadying the economy has largely rested upon an $8.5 billion stimulus package.
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Last week's evidence by thebankmanager and secretary contradicts all of Mr Ahern's previous accounts to the media and previous evidence he has given to the tribunal, in which he has denied handling such amounts of sterling.
"We started when we realised that we had to do something before rubbish completely destroyed our environment, " the bank's manager, Joao Manoel Ribeiro dos Santos, also a former bricklayer, said.