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Phan Van Anh Vu sentenced to nine years in jail

The Hanoi People’s Court on July 30 sentenced Phan Van Anh Vu nine years in prison for “deliberately disclosing state secrets” under Article 337 of the 2015 Penal Code.
Phan Van Anh Vu sentenced to nine years in jail ảnh 1Phan Van Anh Vu at the court (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA)– The Hanoi People’s Court on July 30 sentenced Phan Van Anh Vu nine years inprison for “deliberately disclosing state secrets” under Article 337 of the2015 Penal Code.

The defendant, alsoknown as Vu nhom, is a 43-year-old resident in Hai Chau district, the central cityof Da Nang. He was put on a close trial with two other defendants, both prosecutedunder the same charges. They were Phan Huu Tuan (born in 1955, former deputy generaldirector of the Ministry of Public Security’s General Department ofIntelligence, residing in Tay Ho district, Hanoi), and Nguyen Huu Bach (born in1963, a former officer of the Ministry of Public Security, residing in HoangMai district, Hanoi).

Tuan received sevenyears of imprisonment and Bach got six years of jail time.

Phan Van Anh Vu wasprosecuted on the charge of “deliberately disclosing state secrets” in December2017. He fled to Singapore, where he was deported for violating the ImmigrationAct of Singapore.

The Ministry ofPublic Security’s Security Investigation Agency received and arrested fugitivePhan Van Anh Vu on January 4 after he was deported from Singapore.

Vu was alsoprosecuted on several other charges.

Meanwhile, criminalproceedings against Phan Huu Tuan and Nguyen Huu Bach on the charge of“deliberately disclosing state secrets” started on April 17 this year.

Earlier the same day,President Tran Dai Quang signed a decision to strip Phan Huu Tuan of the title“People’s Public Security Officer”. Minister of Public Security To Lam alsosigned a decision to strip Nguyen Huu Bach of his same title. –VNA
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