On the afternoon of July 10, informing reporter Dan Tri, lawyer Le Thanh Kinh, who defended former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs To Anh Dung, said that up to now, Mr. Dung and The family has paid 16.2 billion VND to overcome the consequences of the rescue flight case.”
The lawyer said that recently, Mr. To Anh Dung expressed his awareness that his behavior was wrong. was wrong and blamed himself a lot, repented and sincerely declared and cooperated with the investigation agency to correct the mistake, hoping to receive leniency from the law.
Indictment by the Procuracy The Supreme People’s Murder represents the time when the “rescue flight” incident occurred. Mr. To Anh Dung was assigned to direct the Consular Department (Ministry of Foreign Affairs).
The Consular Department is focal point for receiving applications from enterprises participating in flights to bring Vietnamese citizens home during the Covid-19 period; is the place to sign documents asking for opinions from 4 Ministries (Police, National Defense, Health, Transport) and sign a proposal to send to Government leaders for approval to bring citizens home.
Know the role of Mr. To Anh Dung from May 2020 to January 2022, 13 individual business representatives approached and asked Mr. Dung to resolve the flight licensing, and the former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs agreed.</ p>
The allegation is that Mr. To Anh Dung received bribes 37 times from 13 businesses with an amount of more than 21 billion VND.
According to the decision of the Hanoi People’s Court Tomorrow morning (July 11), the first instance trial of 54 defendants in the “rescue flight” case will take place.
54 defendants were prosecuted by the Supreme People’s Procuracy for the following crimes: Giving bribes Accepting bribes Brokering bribes Fraudulent appropriation of property and Abusing positions and powers during examinations on official duty.
In which Mr. To Anh Dung, former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Mr. Nguyen Quang Linh, former assistant to the Deputy Prime Minister, were both prosecuted for accepting bribes.
The trial panel consists of 5 people chaired by judge Vu Quang Huy.
5 prosecutors of the Supreme People’s Procuracy and Hanoi People’s Procuracy were appointed. Assigning the exercise of prosecutorial power and supervising first instance trials at the trial. The trial is expected to take place within a month.
According to the indictment, when the Covid-19 epidemic broke out and became complicated, the Government directed the organization of flights to bring Vietnamese citizens home from abroad to prevent the epidemic.</p >
The Government has assigned the Government Office a Working Group of a number of local ministries and branches to carry out the flight licensing process and quarantine policy.
During the licensing process flights approved local quarantine and resolved cases from September 2020 to December 2022. 25 individuals took advantage of their assigned positions, powers, and tasks to receive a total of nearly 165 billion VND in bribes; took advantage of position and power while performing official duties, causing damage of more than 10 billion VND.
In this case, the prosecutor’s office identified 23 individuals as representatives of businesses who paid bribes of more than 226 billion VND 4 individual brokers bribed more than 74 billion VND and fraudulently appropriated nearly 25 billion VND.
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