The eight defendants were given prisonsentences, ranging from 16 months and 11 days to five years, for organising andbrokering illegal emigration under Article 349 of the 2015 Penal Code.
The jury concluded that in early 2018, takingadvantage of several people’s demand for working in the RoK and the State’spolicy of creating the necessary conditions for businesses to connect andpromote investment and business links with foreign partners throughparticipating in overseas trips by leaders’ working delegations, the defendantsreceived money from six people to disguise them as entrepreneurs to join abusiness delegation and travel on a special flight to the RoK.
Four of the six people illegally migrating tothe RoK have returned to Vietnam./.
VNA