Former Director Dang Viet Ha is responsible for more than 40 billion VND in bribes.

On March 26, the Ho Chi Minh City Police Department completed the investigation conclusion and requested the Ho Chi Minh City People's Procuracy to prosecute 254 defendants related to the violations that occurred at the Vietnam Register, 11 registration centers in Ho Chi Minh City, and 3 registration centers in Long An, Ben Tre, and Soc Trang .

Dang Viet Ha (Former Director of the Vietnam Register) was temporarily detained by Ho Chi Minh City Police.

In the case, 134 defendants were proposed to be prosecuted for accepting bribes; 53 defendants were proposed to be prosecuted for giving bribes; 5 defendants were proposed to be prosecuted for brokering bribes; 10 defendants were proposed to be prosecuted for forging documents of agencies and organizations. The remaining defendants were proposed to be prosecuted for forgery in work, production, purchase, sale, exchange or donation of tools, equipment, software for illegal use...

The investigation conclusion shows that the defendant Dang Viet Ha, in his position as Director of the Vietnam Register, is the head responsible for leading and directing all activities of the Register, assigned to manage state inspection work nationwide. However, the defendant Dang Viet Ha did not properly perform his assigned duties and tasks, loosened management, and lacked inspection and supervision, allowing the departments under the Vietnam Register, inspection centers, and inspection branches nationwide to commit systematic violations and negative acts for a long time.

It is worth mentioning that when discovering violations and negative actions, Dang Viet Ha did not correct or handle them but instead took personal advantage. Dang Viet Ha continued to put forth illegal policies and instructions in the direction of increasing his benefit from the negative money and bribes that officers of the Motor Vehicle Inspection Department received.

The conclusion shows that the defendant Tran Viet Ha must bear general criminal responsibility for the bribe amount received from the Department of Motor Vehicle Inspection from August 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022, which is 31.1 billion VND; the bribe amount received from 4 inspection centers of block V in Ho Chi Minh City from April 1, 2022 to November 2022, which is 7.6 billion VND; the bribe amount received from 5 inspection centers of block V in Hanoi is 780 million VND; and the bribe amount of the directors of inspection centers of block D is 680 million VND.

According to the Investigation Conclusion, the total amount of bribes for which defendant Tran Viet Ha must bear criminal responsibility is more than 40 billion VND, of which Ha benefited more than 8.7 billion VND and 13,000 USD. Dang Viet Ha's actions constituted the crime of "receiving bribes".

In addition, the investigation concluded that the defendant Nguyen Vu Hai, in his role as Deputy Director of the Vietnam Register in charge of the activities of the River Ship Department, took advantage of his position, authority, and job position to violate regulations and approved the granting of full capacity to facilities that did not meet the prescribed conditions, creating conditions for the shipbuilding facility to operate illegally. The defendant Nguyen Vu Hai committed the crime of "abusing position and authority while performing official duties".

Received bribes from 16 companies to ignore errors

Regarding the group of leaders of the Vietnam Register, leaders, officers, and inspectors of the Motor Vehicle Inspection Department (VAR), including: Tran Ky Hinh (former Director of the Vietnam Register), Dang Viet Ha, Tran Anh Quan (acting Head of the Motor Vehicle Inspection Department), Dang Tran Khanh (Deputy Head of the Motor Vehicle Inspection Department), Nguyen Duc Toan, Trinh Binh Duong , Hoang Xuan Thao, Vu Hong Quang, Tran Ngoc Anh, Pham Duc Long, Nguyen Minh Tuan, Nguyen Anh Hiep, Nguyen Phuong Nam, Nghiem Van Cuong, Nguyen Tuan Chau, Nguyen Van Huy, Nguyen Thai Duong. The police determined that these defendants took advantage of their assigned positions and powers during the process of evaluating design documents for vehicle modifications to receive bribes from 16 companies. At the same time, they ignored errors and mistakes in the design documents to share the benefits.

Search at the vehicle inspection center in Ho Chi Minh City

In addition, during the process of granting operating licenses and periodically inspecting and evaluating the inspection center, the defendants Tran Ky Hinh, Tran Anh Quan, Dang Tran Khanh, and Pham Duc Ngoc received bribes from Tran Buu Tung - Director of Inspection Center 50-19D (District 5, Ho Chi Minh City) to ignore the shortcomings in the licensing documents and violations in the inspection line.

Some defendants also participated in establishing "backyard" companies operating in the field of renovation design, giving bribes to VAR inspectors.

The actions of the above subjects constitute the crimes of "receiving bribes" and "giving bribes".

Discuss with VAR inspector to receive bribes

According to the investigation conclusion, from August 1, 2019 to July 31, 2022, when he held the position of Deputy Head of the Motor Vehicle Inspection Department, the defendant Trinh Binh Duong participated in discussions and agreed on the policy of receiving bribes, sharing bribes with 12 inspectors of the VAR Department and benefited 100,000 VND/file.

During this time, the Motor Vehicle Inspection Department appraised 22,486 files, the inspectors received bribes of nearly 50 billion VND and divided 2.2 billion VND for Duong.

Therefore, Trinh Binh Duong must bear criminal responsibility for the total bribe amount of nearly 50 billion VND.

In addition, Trinh Binh Duong, Hoang Xuan Thao (inspector of the Motor Vehicle Inspection Department), Vu Hong Quang (officer of the Vietnam Register) also contributed capital to establish An Binh Company and VCAR Company to operate in the field of designing and modifying motor vehicles. Afterwards, they hired defendant La Thu Chien as director.

To have the documents appraised, from March 1, 2019 to September 30, 2022, the above defendants discussed and agreed to bribe the inspectors appraising the documents with a total of more than 11 billion VND.

According to the investigation agency, Trinh Binh Duong's actions constituted the crimes of "receiving bribes" and "giving bribes".

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