The defendants at the court (Source: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – The Hanoi People’s Court onDecember 11 sentenced Nguyen Duc Chung, former Chairman of the municipalPeople’s Committee, to five years in prison for charge of “appropriatingconfidential state documents”.
Pham Quang Dung, a former officer at the InvestigationPolice Department for Corruption, Smuggling and Economic Crimes under theMinistry of Public Security, was given a jail term of four years and six months,while Nguyen Hoang Trung, a former officer of the Hanoi Department of PublicSecurity and Chung’s driver; and Nguyen Anh Ngoc, former deputy head of CauGiay district’s division of public security and assigned to work at the HanoiPeople’s Committee’s Office, received imprisonment sentences of 24 months and18 months, respectively.
The three defendants were also accused of “appropriatingconfidential state documents” under Article 337 of the Penal Code 2015.
According to the indictment of the Supreme People’sProcuracy, Chung and his wife, Nguyen Thi Truc Chi Hoa, had rights andobligations associated with the case at the Nhat Cuong Company under thesupervision of the Central Steering Committee on Anti-Corruption.
Chung asked Dung to provide him with documents andinformation related to the case.
At Chung’s request, Dung stole nine relevant documentslisted as “State secrets” and gave six to Chung between July 2019 and June2020.
Trung and Ngoc took part in printing and adjusting three ofthe documents.
The one-day closed trial’s sentences were pronouncedpublicly./.
VNA
