On November 21, the appeal trial of defendant Truong My Lan and 47 other defendants in phase 1 of the case at Van Thinh Phat Group, Saigon Commercial Joint Stock Bank (SCB) and related units and organizations continued with the defense of lawyers for the defendants in the group of inspection and supervision agencies of the State Bank.
During the process of the lawyers defending the defendant Truong My Lan, the High People's Procuracy in Ho Chi Minh City requested SCB Bank to provide information to clarify a number of issues.
Specifically, this agency requested SCB to provide information on: SCB's total debt before the merger of 3 joint stock commercial banks: De Nhat, Saigon and Vietnam Tin Nghia; the total amount of money the bank said was outstanding, how much was borrowed to pay off the debt, how much money was withdrawn by defendant Lan...
In response to the above request, SCB representative committed to providing information in writing.
Defendant Truong My Lan.
In addition, in the defense for the defendants, the lawyers also requested SCB to provide some additional documents related to the loans at the bank and other issues. This request was approved by the presiding judge.
However, on the same afternoon, the lawyer protecting the rights of the victim SCB suddenly refused to provide documents as requested by the Procuracy and the lawyers.
“Everything has been determined in the file. The defendants who appeal regarding their rights only need to use the documents already in the file,” the lawyer stated.
According to the case, from 2012 to October 2022, Ms. Truong My Lan acquired and held 85 - 91.5% of SCB shares. From then on, the defendant became a shareholder with the "power" to direct, operate, and manipulate all of SCB's activities, serving her various purposes.
The Chairman of Van Thinh Phat Group and his accomplices were accused of carrying out a series of acts including: selecting and arranging his trusted personnel to key positions at SCB; establishing a number of units under SCB specializing in lending and disbursing loans at the request of Truong My Lan; establishing and using thousands of "ghost" companies, hiring many individuals; colluding with individuals who are leaders of many related enterprises to commit crimes.
In addition, Truong My Lan and her accomplices colluded with many valuation companies to inflate the value of collateral; created a large number of fake loan applications to withdraw money from SCB; devised plans to withdraw money, "cut off" cash flow after disbursement; sold bad debts, sold deferred credit loans to reduce credit balance, reduce bad debts, to conceal violations; bribed and influenced people with positions and powers in state agencies to violate their duties.
From there, Truong My Lan and her accomplices, with different positions and roles, committed many crimes of infringement on property, infringement on the operations of the Bank, and the proper operations of State agencies.
In which, the Supreme People's Procuracy determined that many acts were carried out in the form of organized complicity with sophisticated and cunning tricks, causing especially serious consequences, appropriating and causing damage to especially large sums of money.
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