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HCM City land-use violation case involving city ex-leader suspended again due to COVID-19

The People’s Court of Ho Chi Minh City on June 17 announced that the second hearing for the case of law violation involving the land lot at 57 Cao Thang street being exchanged for the land lot at 185 Hai Ba Trung street in the city will take place from July 13-19.
HCM City land-use violation case involving city ex-leader suspended again due to COVID-19 ảnh 1Former Vice Chairman of the HCM City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Tai (centre) at a hearing in March (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – The People’s Court of Ho Chi MinhCity on June 17 announced that the second hearing for the case of law violationinvolving the land lot at 57 Cao Thang street being exchanged for the land lotat 185 Hai Ba Trung street in the city will take place from July 13-19.

The hearing, which was scheduled for May 26to June 2, was delayed to June 22 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, socialdistancing measures are being applied in HCM City until the end of June, forcingthe trial to be suspended again.

In this case, Duong Thi Bach Diep, Director of the Diep BachDuong Real Estate Co., is among the key defendants in the trial, and is chargedwith “fraud, appropriationof assets”.

Nine other defendants in the case are charged with “lack of responsibility,causing serious consequences,” including former Vice Chairman of the municipalPeople’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Tai; former Deputy Director of the municipalDepartment of Finance Tran Nam Trang; former Director of the HCM CityLight Music Centre Vy Nhat Tao; former Director of the municipalDepartment of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Thanh Rum; former DeputyDirector of the department Le Ton Thanh; former deputy heads ofthe municipal People’s Committee Office Huynh Kim Phat and Le VanThanh; former Director of the municipal Department of Natural Resources andEnvironment Dao Anh Kiet; and former Deputy Director of the department NguyenThanh Nhan.

According to the indictment, the 185 Hai BaTrung land lot, owned by the State, was the headquarters of theLight Music Centre under the municipal Department of Culture, Sports andTourism. In 2007, the centre’s then director Vy Nhat Tao contacted Diep tocooperate in upgrading the headquarters.

Diep then proposed exchanging her land lot at 57 Cao Thangstreet for the 185 Hai Ba Trung land lot, as she owned the landlot at 179 Hai Ba Trung street and wanted to build a five-star hotel complexthere.

The property swap was approved by Nguyen Thanh Tai. During the process, Diepused the land use right certificate for 57 Cao Thang as collateral to borrowmoney from Agribank - HCM City branch.

After being granted a land right use certificate for the property at 185 Hai BaTrung, however, Diep did not use it to replace the collateral at Agribank tohand over the property at 57 Cao Thang to the Light Music Centre as committed.Instead, Diep used the 185 Hai Ba Trung land lot as collateral for aloan at Southern Bank (now Sacombank) and so far was not able to repay thedebt.

The indictment stated that Tai permitted the property swap while he was notresponsible for handling and reorganising State assets.

On March 5, 2010, Tai signed a document sent to relevant units approving theexchange of the two land lots, without any request to check and clarify thelegal status of the 57 Cao Thang land lot, causing losses of State assets.

The other defendants showed a lack of responsibility in carrying out theirduty, thus facilitating Diep’s fraud and appropriation of assets.

The People’s Court of Ho Chi Minh City on March 26 decidedto return dossiers of the case for further investigations as new evidence anddetails were found./.
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