Tenma Vietnam, located in Bac Ninh province, is a subsidiary of Japan’s plastic product maker Tenma Corporation (Photo: dantri.com.vn)
Hanoi (VNA) – The investigation into theJapanese-invested Tenma Vietnam company’s allegation of bribing civil servantsand tax and customs officers of northern Bac Ninh province is still ongoing,according to a police official.
At the Government’s press conference on August3, Maj. Gen. To An Xo, Chief of the Office of the Ministry of Public Security(MPS), said following the Prime Minister’s order for the Ministry of Financeand the MPS to probe into this case, the MPS directed its relevant agencies andthe Bac Ninh Department of Public Security to conduct investigation and askedthe Finance Ministry’s Inspectorate to inspect this company’s tax payment.
However, he noted, the general director andproduction director of Tenma Vietnam already returned to Japan due to theCOVID-19 outbreak and have yet to come back to Vietnam, so police haven’t beenable to investigate these two persons.
The MPS has coordinated with the Ministry ofForeign Affairs and Japan’s representative agency in Vietnam to collectinformation, and they will continue clarifying the case in line withregulations, Xo added.
According to the Vietnamese Embassy in Japan,some Japanese media outlets like the Asahi Shimbun newspaper, Kyodo news agencyand Nikkei reported that the Tenma Vietnam Co. Ltd, whose parent company isbased in Tokyo, had given two bribes worth 25 million JPY (over 235,000 USD) intotal to several Vietnamese civil servants to persuade them to reduce the taxarrears the firm had to pay.
Responding to the report, on May 25, the FinanceMinistry assigned its inspectorate to set up a team to inspect the taxation andcustoms departments of Bac Ninh, along with collectives and individualsconcerned.
The Vietnamese general departments of taxationand customs suspended 11 officials from work to serve the investigation./.
