On the afternoon of March 11, a representative of the Procuracy questioned defendant Tran Thi My Dung, former Deputy General Director of SCB; Do Thi Nhan (former Director of the State Bank’s Inspection and Supervision Department) and many other defendants to further clarify their roles related to the Van Thinh Phat case.
Mrs. Do Thi Nhan: Many people admitted, but only the defendant was prosecuted for accepting bribes
Procuracy representative asked questions during the meeting and discussion with Ms. Truong My Lan , how did defendant Do Thi Nhan perceive Ms. Lan’s role with SCB. The defendant testified that he met Ms. Lan at the request of Vo Tan Hoang Van, asking Ms. Lan to sell some of her assets to pay off the bank’s debt.
Because when the inspection saw the investor’s debt to the bank, “very big” defendant Nhan said and said that she did not know Ms. Lan only through Van. She only knew that Ms. Truong My Lan was a big customer and investor of SCB. When she worked with SCB, she learned about her role as Chairman of Van Group. Thinh Phat is very big at SCB.
Regarding the question of how many times the inspector discussed with Truong My Lan, defendant Nhan replied that he met twice Truong My Lan did not put SCB under special control,” defendant Nhan said.
The defendant admitted the behavior and amount of money as in the indictment as prosecuted, hoping the jury would consider the context when doing so. duties and functions.
” The defendant received money from Vo Tan Hoang Van completely passively. After receiving money for the safety of himself and his family, the defendant temporarily violated the law, received money and left it in the corner of the house. The defendant contacted Van to pay but Van did not come to pick it up. Working with the investigation agency, the defendant was automatically submitted. The defendant repented. When I was the defendant, I didn’t know that the defendant was wrong The law is lenient” Ms. Do Thi Nhan declared and asked questions that many people in the inspection team also received money like the defendant, but only the defendant was prosecuted for accepting bribes.
At this time, the jury interrupted the Procuracy and defendant Nhan to question the defendant as the State Bank’s inspection supervision board about why General Director Vo Tan Hoang Van sent the defendant to meet Ms. Truong My Lan to negotiate. SCB’s status? The chairperson said that the defendant must know the role and position of Truong My Lan.
Regarding Ms. Nhan’s testimony that it was convenient, the chairperson asked the defendant how many times he received money. Nhan’s report confirmed his previous testimony: 4 times for a total of 5,2 million.
“Receiving money 4 times, why are you passive? If you don’t have the sense to receive it, you will receive it the first time and then return it, but still accept it the second time, 3, 4 times,” the chairman said harshly.
The jury analyzed that other defendants also received money, but Ms. Nhan received a large amount of money. As for whether the Procuracy prosecuted correctly or not, the jury will consider.
Disappointed because of “wrong trust” in Ms. Truong My Lan
Afternoon On the same day, the Procuracy representative questioned defendant Tran Thi My Dung, former Deputy General Director of SCB.
Defendant Tran Thi My Dung, former Deputy General Director of SCB, said that when Ms. Truong My Lan needed money, she would meet and discussed with Dung. She then provided collateral to borrow money at SCB.
“In those meetings, was Truong Hue Van often present and what was Van’s role?” Procuracy asked.
“Meet to hear that there are some issues that SCB cannot handle. Ms. Lan directed Van to set up companies to borrow money,” defendant Dung declared. The female defendant said she worked at SCB from the position of employee to Deputy General Director. The defendant’s job was inherited from Nguyen Phuong Hong. (died during the investigation).
Hong was the person who guided Ms. Truong My Lan to submit the loan application to determine the source of money.
“Truong My Lan gave That the defendants at SCB created their own collateral loan from Truong My Lan, do you think it is true?” The prosecutor asked. At this time, defendant Dung choked with emotion: “After more than ten months Seeing colleagues again, some of them had white hair and thin bodies…” Dung choked and interrupted for a moment before continuing his statement.
“The defendant idolized and worked for Ms. Lan with a spirit of loyalty. wall. What did you do wrong? This morning, hearing Ms. Lan’s statement like that, the defendant did not blame her but only blamed herself for mistrusting her. At the time of work, not only the defendant but also everyone working at SCB believed Ms. Lan without suspicion. When the defendant received instructions from Ms. Lan to go home and meet Mr. Bui Anh Dung, Mr. Dung said that he had followed Ms. Lan for more than ten years and believed that she and her brothers worked together to help Ms. Lan overcome difficulties.
Vo Tan Hoang Van It is said that if you are not talented at being a boss, you must choose a good boss to follow. When something happens, the defendant faces what he did, doesn’t blame anyone for being wrong, then accepts it. The defendant hoped that Ms. Lan would be the same. However, the defendant was disappointed” Dung told the court.
The defendant thanked defendant Truong Hue Van for saying in court that he saw SCB employees working hard so he followed suit. “Defendant Thank you, Ms. Van, for acknowledging the contributions of the SCB defendants,” Dung said.
KS reminded the defendants to control their emotions and calmly answer questions.
Defendant Truong My Lan: “Can the jury not use the word takeover?”
Previously on the morning of March 11, the jury interrogated defendant Truong My Lan Nguyen Cao Tri. Then, the Procuracy representative participated in questioning a number of defendants who are former leaders at SCB to clarify defendant Lan’s role at the bank.
In response to the jury, defendant Lan denied the charges. forced to hold 85-91% of shares in SCB. “The defendant and his family hold less than 15%, 30% are foreign shareholders, and about 30% are thanks to their friends. I have never confirmed that my stake in SCB is 91%. The self-declaration is partly correct and partly inaccurate,” Chairman of Van Thinh Phat Group declared.
The jury cited the testimonies of the defendants who hold shares at SCB, all confirming that the majority of the shares are standing. name is Ms. Truong My Lan. The female defendant explained that when the three banks merged, those people only knew that the defendant helped SCB but did not know the nature.
The chairperson evaluated defendant Lan very carefully. testimony should be asked in court many times for the defendant to confirm. “The reason the jury asked this is because looking at the records, they saw that the defendant carefully read the statement and clearly noted which was right and which was wrong,” the chairman said. said.
During the trial of defendant Lan Many times I got emotional and cried. “Please, the jury, don’t use the word bank takeover every time you hear my pain.” The chairman reminded the defendant to stay calm and said that the jury had not yet evaluated whether or not to take over the bank, but was stating it again content of the indictment prosecuting the defendant.
At the previous interrogation days, the defendants, Chairman of the Board of Directors of SCB, General Director of the bank, and SCB’s leadership team all determined to work according to the direction of the Chairman. Van Thinh Phat Group. Regarding this, defendant Lan continued to deny.
Truong My Lan declared that her position was to handle property lending without holding executive power at SCB “As terrible as the indictment says, I would like the jury to consider that today all the assets of family friends are all over SCB,” defendant Lan said and said that all the other defendants’ testimonies contained many things that were not true.< /p>
Ms. Lan cited the evidence that Vo Tan Hoang Van only met the defendant 2-3 times a year, which is impossible to know to confirm that the defendant holds control over SCB.
The defendant continued to present When SCB restructured, she put her assets in to save the bank. “SCB doesn’t have enough money to cover the expenses, so where can they lend me money? Where can I borrow money? Where will my money go? I constantly put in assets because if I stop, I will lose everything,” Ms. Lan declared.
But the chairman said that the indictment determined that the defendant’s bringing in assets was a method of committing a crime.
“Appropriation of 304,000 billion is completely non-existent. SCB has no money, am I appropriating my assets and money? I hope the jury will consider the role and position of the money I appropriated,” defendant Lan said.
Former Chairman of the Board of Directors SCB: “I trust Ms. Lan blindly”
Representative of the Supreme People’s Procuracy interrogates defendant Truong Khanh Hoang, former Acting General Director of SCB. The defendant confirmed that he followed Ms. Truong My Lan’s instructions to withdraw money from SCB to buy a number of projects.
With position Acting General Director Hoang has repeatedly approved money transfers abroad with Ms. Truong My Lan’s loan group to buy capital contributions from foreign companies to pay off credit cards while Ms. Lan is abroad.
In this case, Truong Khanh Hoang was accused of legally signing 386 loans, helping Truong My Lan appropriate nearly 183,000 billion VND.
Reply to the Procuracy of defendant Bui Anh Dung, former Chairman of the Board of Directors SCB confirmed that Ms. Truong My Lan was the person who decided the defendant’s title. The report to the State Bank was just a formality.
“How did the defendant know about Ms. Truong My Lan’s shareholding? at SCB?” The Procuracy asked.
Mr. Dung replied that according to the indictment, the defendant Lan kept 89-90%. However, the defendant did not see the documents and only surmised that Ms. Lan held The large stake is unknown.
The prosecution asked defendant Dung what purpose Ms. Truong My Lan used the loan money for. Mr. Dung declared: “According to the defendant, I think Ms. Lan used it for Loan money to buy a project to pay for the project or serve Ms. Lan’s purpose. That’s all the defendant knows.”
“The defendant believed that Ms. Lan and her subordinates had completed the documents according to the correct procedures through the headquarters department and the defendant trusted and signed. Now the defendant standing here feels partly at fault for blindly trusting Ms. Lan. Thinking of Lan business very “The defendant thought she would bring a brighter and better face to the bank” presented the former Chairman of the Board of Directors of SCB.
The defendant repeated many times that he “blindly trusted Ms. Lan”.
Mr. Dung also confirmed that the loan documents of Ms. Truong My Lan and the Van Thinh Phat group have a separate symbol “HSTT” (Marketing Headquarters). This is the way to distinguish Truong’s group loans My Lan and normal loan documents.
Both admitted that the person who decided the General Director position at SCB for her was Ms. Truong My Lan. Defendant Vo Tan Hoang Van testified through defendant Nguyen Thi. Thu Suong and Dinh Van Thanh (both on the run). Van knows that Ms. Lan is a major shareholder of SCB
“When defendant Lan needs to withdraw money, how will she communicate with the defendant?” ask.
“According to the loan process. When she needed to borrow money, Ms. Lan discussed with Nguyen Phuong Hong (deceased). Hong worked with the branches to transfer the documents to the headquarters for re-evaluation and then forwarded to the defendant for approval. Ms. Lan did not meet with the defendant in advance to discuss,” Van said.
However, at this time, the Procuracy representative reminded the defendant to get to the heart of the question and re-explained the question to the defendant. < /p>
“There was a time when Ms. Truong My Lan called the defendant to talk casually, without saying specifically how much to borrow, specifically discussed by Nguyen Phuong Hong,” defendant Van presented and said that every month Ms. Lan called the defendant 1-2 times.
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