Defendants at the trial (Photo: VNA)HCM City (VNA) - The High-level People’sCourt in Ho Chi Minh City on May 22 rejected all appeals filed by four defendantswho are former city officials accused of “violating regulations on managementand use of State assets, causing losses and wastefulness”.
The appeal trial considered the appeals by DaoAnh Kiet (former Director of the municipal Department of Natural Resources andEnvironment), Le Van Thanh (former Deputy Chief of the Office of the HCM CityPeople’s Committee), Nguyen Thanh Chuong (former head of the office’s urbandivision), and Truong Van Ut (former deputy head of the land managementdivision at the Department of Natural Resources and Environment).
The other defendant, former Vice Chairman of theHCM City People’s Committee Nguyen Huu Tin, did not appeal against hisseven-year prison sentence.
The jury said the defendants’ behaviours androles in the case were tried comprehensively at the first-instance trial in December2019, and they also failed to provide any new extenuating circumstances at thisappeal trial. Given this, the jury rejected their appeals and upheld the initialsentences.
Therefore, Dao Anh Kiet will have to spend sixyears and six months in prison, Truong Van Ut five years, Le Van Thanh fouryears, and Nguyen Thanh Chuong three years for “violating regulations onmanagement and use of State assets, causing losses and wastefulness”.
Wrongdoings in this case were found after aninvestigation into the now-jailed Phan Van Anh Vu (also knownas Vu “nhom”, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bac Nam 79 ConstructionJSC and the Nova Bac Nam 79 JSC) and his accomplices was expanded.
In 2014, Phan Van Anh Vu, in the name of a“shell organisation of the Ministry of Public Security’s General Department ofIntelligence”, signed many documents or proposed leaders of the Ministry ofPublic Security request the HCM City People’s Committee to assist and createconditions for him to rent the State-managed land and building at No. 15 ThiSach street to serve activities of the public security sector.
However, after receiving the land and building,Vu did not use them for police activities but carried out construction at thisprime location for self-interest.
When then Vice Chairman of the HCM City People’sCommittee Nguyen Huu Tin, received the request for permitting the Bac Nam 79Construction JSC to directly sign a lease contract for the land lot at 15 ThiSach, he did not report the issue to the then Chairman of the People’sCommittee but assigned the municipal Department of Natural Resource andEnvironment to give procedural guidance.
After that, Le Van Thanh, Nguyen Thanh Chuong,Dao Anh Kiet, and Truong Van Ut proposed Nguyen Huu Tin rent out the land, sellthe building and reduce the land rental for the land and building at 15 ThiSach that ran counter to regulations./.
The appeal trial considered the appeals by DaoAnh Kiet (former Director of the municipal Department of Natural Resources andEnvironment), Le Van Thanh (former Deputy Chief of the Office of the HCM CityPeople’s Committee), Nguyen Thanh Chuong (former head of the office’s urbandivision), and Truong Van Ut (former deputy head of the land managementdivision at the Department of Natural Resources and Environment).
The other defendant, former Vice Chairman of theHCM City People’s Committee Nguyen Huu Tin, did not appeal against hisseven-year prison sentence.
The jury said the defendants’ behaviours androles in the case were tried comprehensively at the first-instance trial in December2019, and they also failed to provide any new extenuating circumstances at thisappeal trial. Given this, the jury rejected their appeals and upheld the initialsentences.
Therefore, Dao Anh Kiet will have to spend sixyears and six months in prison, Truong Van Ut five years, Le Van Thanh fouryears, and Nguyen Thanh Chuong three years for “violating regulations onmanagement and use of State assets, causing losses and wastefulness”.
Wrongdoings in this case were found after aninvestigation into the now-jailed Phan Van Anh Vu (also knownas Vu “nhom”, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bac Nam 79 ConstructionJSC and the Nova Bac Nam 79 JSC) and his accomplices was expanded.
In 2014, Phan Van Anh Vu, in the name of a“shell organisation of the Ministry of Public Security’s General Department ofIntelligence”, signed many documents or proposed leaders of the Ministry ofPublic Security request the HCM City People’s Committee to assist and createconditions for him to rent the State-managed land and building at No. 15 ThiSach street to serve activities of the public security sector.
However, after receiving the land and building,Vu did not use them for police activities but carried out construction at thisprime location for self-interest.
When then Vice Chairman of the HCM City People’sCommittee Nguyen Huu Tin, received the request for permitting the Bac Nam 79Construction JSC to directly sign a lease contract for the land lot at 15 ThiSach, he did not report the issue to the then Chairman of the People’sCommittee but assigned the municipal Department of Natural Resource andEnvironment to give procedural guidance.
After that, Le Van Thanh, Nguyen Thanh Chuong,Dao Anh Kiet, and Truong Van Ut proposed Nguyen Huu Tin rent out the land, sellthe building and reduce the land rental for the land and building at 15 ThiSach that ran counter to regulations./.
VNA
