Suspects detained over breaches in medical supplies purchase. From left: Nguyen Nhat Cam, Director of Hanoi Centre for Disease Control (CDC); Nguyen Vu Ha Thanh, head of Hanoi CDC’s financial and accounting department; and Le Xuan Tuan, an employee in the department. (File Photo of VNA)Hanoi (VNA) - The director of the Hanoi Centre for Disease Control (CDC) alongwith six others have been detained over alleged wrongdoings in purchasingCOVID-19 testing equipment, the Ministry of Public Security announced on April22.
Initialinvestigations revealed the suspects colluded to jack up the price of theReverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) machines, used intesting for the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which “result in particularly seriouslosses to the State”.
The policesaid the case involves Hanoi CDC under the municipal Department of Health, NhanThanh Asset Valuation and Auctioning JSC, and Vietnam Scientific and MaterialScience Company Limited (MST) and “certain other relevant units”.
The detainedsuspects in the case include 57-year-old Nguyen Nhat Cam, Director of the HanoiCDC; Nguyen Vu Ha Thanh, 41, head of the Hanoi CDC’s financial and accountingdepartment; and Le Xuan Tuan, 38, an employee of the department.
Four othersuspects are from private companies alleged to have been in collusion with the HanoiCDC, namely Dao The Vinh, 45-year-old, Director of MST; Nguyen Tran Duy, 40, GeneralDirector of the Nhan Thanh company; Nguyen Ngoc Nhat, 34, an employee of VitechDevelopment Co., Ltd; and Nguyen Thanh Tuyen, 35, an employee of Phuong DongMedical Equipment Co., Ltd.
TheInvestigation Police Agency under the Ministry of Public Security (C03) said itis clarifying the violations of each suspect and trying to recover the losses,and expanding the scope of the case./.
VNA
