At the trial (Photo: VNA) The defendants include 59-year-old Tran Van Nam,also known as Tran Quoc Tuan, former Secretary of the Party Committee andformer Vice Chairman and former Chairman of People’s Committee of Binh Duong province, and 12others who are also former officials and leaders of the locality.
They were prosecuted by the Supreme People’sProcuracy for “violating regulations on managing and using State assets,causing losses and wastefulness” in line with Article 219, Clause 3 of the 2015Penal Code.
Among the remaining 15, who once worked or are working forexport-import and real estate firms in Binh Duong, three are charged with “violating regulations on managing and using State assets, causing lossesand wastefulness” and “property embezzlement,” nine with “violating regulations on managing and using State assets, causing losses and wastefulness,” and three with “property embezzlement.”
Of the 28 defendants, 26 were present at the court,while two others were absent due to childbirth and health reasons.
According to the indictment, Tran Van Nam who was Vice Chairman and then Chairman of People’s Committee of Binh Duong from July 2010 to December 2015, and Secretary of the provincial Party Committee in the 2015-2020 tenure; Tran Thanh Liem who was Chairman of the People’sCommittee from October 2015 to October 2020; Pham Van Canh who was Standing DeputySecretary of the provincial Party Committee from December 2013 to November2018; and Nguyen Van Minh, Chairman of the Council of Members and GeneralDirector of Binh Duong Producing and Trading Corporation (Protrade Corp) from August2010 to June 2017, deliberately violated legal regulations oncapital and asset management, causing huge losses to the State.
Specifically, although Nam knew that the proposal toapply the average land price in 2006 to collect land use levy under landallocation regulations in 2012 and 2013 was illegal, he still issued a documenton land use levy collection from Protrade Corp, causing a loss of more than 716billion VND (30.6 million USD) to the State.
Other former provincial leaders knew that thetransfer of 43 hectares of land and the State's 30% stake in Tan PhuCompany to individuals by Minh and his accomplices was unlawful. However, theystill legalised procedures to enable Minh to complete the transfer of Stateassets to a company founded by his son-in-law and sold to another privatecompany, causing a loss of nearly 985 billion VND.
The defendants also breached the rule when failing to verify the value of a 145-ha land lot during the process of equitisation, enabling Minh and other accomplices to cause aloss of over 4.03 trillion VND to the State.
The indictment said Nam must bear the main responsibility for his wrong decisions and instructions that resulted in heavy damage to the State asset, while Minh is the culprit.
The trial is expected to last for 20 days./.
The trial is expected to last for 20 days./.
VNA
