The Supreme People’s Procuracy has just issued an indictment, prosecuting defendant Nguyen Thi Minh Phung (43 years old, from Binh Dinh) and 23 accomplices for smuggling.
According to the indictment, the Government Regulating the State’s monopoly on exporting and importing raw gold to produce gold bars. Since 2012, the State Bank has strictly managed the import of gold bars, gold bars, and raw gold.
Taking advantage of the market’s need to consume gold bars and raw gold and see gold prices in At a higher water level than Cambodia, from the beginning of 2022, Nguyen Thi Minh Phung (free gold trader in Ho Chi Minh City) and Nguyen Thi Thuy Hang (owner of Kim Oanh Hang gold store in Tay Ninh) connected with Nguyen Thi Ngoc Giau (border resident). people living in Chang Riec border gate area, Tay Ninh) established, organized, and operated two gold smuggling lines from Cambodia to Vietnam, through Chang Riec border gate. They resold these goods to domestic customers to gain illegal profits.
In particular, a smuggling ring led by Nguyen Thi Minh Phung, linked with Giau, had 20 participants. smuggling 4,830kg of gold bars, worth more than 6,600 billion VND.
The second line, led by Nguyen Thi Kim Phuong (Giau’s sister), smuggled 1,320kg of gold bars, worth more than 1,800 billion VND .
Authorities determined that Phuong benefited 132,000 USD, equivalent to more than 3 billion VND, and Giau benefited more than 3.7 billion VND.
In the first line, After buying 4,830kg of gold bars, Phung sold to defendant Huynh Minh Khanh (Khanh Kim Loan gold shop) 560kg, to defendant Nguyen Thi Minh (Kim Hien Binh Minh gold shop) 268kg, to defendant Dang Thi Thanh Hang (Ha Cabinet) 294kg, 36 other customers 1,828kg; sold to retail customers whose identity was unknown was 1,804kg; The remaining 76kg was discovered, searched, and detained by the investigation agency.
According to the indictment, the defendants’ actions were very serious, affecting the economic management order of the State in the field. trading gold has committed the crime of Trafficking smuggling according to the provisions of Clause 4, Article 188 of the 2015 Penal Code.
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