Defendants at the court. (Source: cand.com.vn) HCM City(VNA) – The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court on March 7 decided to halt thetrial of the case of “deliberately violating State regulations on economicmanagement, causing serious consequences” at Navibank, now National CitizenCommercial Joint Stock Bank (NCB).
The trial, whichbegan on February 28, was put on hold to give time for the Supreme People’sProcuracy to provide more necessary documents and evidence to serve the judgement.
The documents include a copy of the first-instance criminal judgement datedJanuary 27, 2014 and a copy of the second-instance criminal judgement datedJanuary 7, 2015 of the case involving Huynh Thi Huyen Nhu, former deputy chiefof the risk management department of the HCM City branch of VietinBank, who wascharged with “swindling to appropriate assets.”
The jury also requestedthe Supreme People’s Procuracy to supplement account statementsof four account owners relating to 200 billion VND (8.7 millionUSD) of Navibank’s staff deposited at VietinBank, and other documents.
The defendantsbrought to trial are former Navibank officials, including former GeneralDirector Le Quang Tri, former Deputy General Directors Cao Kim Son Cuong,Nguyen Giang Nam and Nguyen Hung Son, and six others who are former heads ofdifferent divisions at Navibank.
During thecourt, nine out of the ten defendants claimed innocence, saying their acts arenot banned in the Law on Credit Organisations and they are irrelevant to Nhu.
According to theindictment of the Supreme People’s Procuracy, from November 19, 2010 to May 27,2011, the credit council of Navibank, which comprised Le Quang Tri, Cao Kim SonCuong, Nguyen Hung Son, Nguyen Giang Nam, Tran Thanh Binh (former chief of thedivision for relations with client businesses), Dinh Thi Doan Trang (formerchief of the client services division), Pham Thi Thu Hien (former chief of thelegal division), and Nguyen Ngoc Oanh (former chief of the risk managementdivision), signed a document giving credit of 1,543 billion VND (67.4 millionUSD) to 14 employees who later deposited the money at the Nha Be branch ofVietinbank to gain the extra interest that was not shown in contracts.
The extrainterest that Nhu paid was more than 24 billion VND (1 million USD), of whichover 15 billion VND was transferred to the account of Huynh Vinh Phat (formerchief of the accounting division) and over 9 billion VND in cash given to DoanDang Luat (former chief of the capital source division).
Nhu tookadvantage of the defendants’ acts to appropriate 200 billion VND (8.7 millionUSD) of Navibank, according to the indictment.
The court isscheduled to resume on March 12.-VNA
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