At the dining room of the Head of the Coast Guard Command, Mr. Nguyen Van Son (former lieutenant general, former commander of the Coast Guard) discussed with 4 other generals regarding directing the withdrawal of VND 50 billion to spend on the Prime Ministers. Chief of Command…
According to the indictment of the Central Military Procuracy, on February 21, 2019, the Ministry of Defense assigned the Coast Guard Command to estimate the state budget for administrative expenses in 2019, the total amount of 450 billion VND. .
On March 8, 2019, at the meeting of the Standing Committee of the Expanded Coast Guard Party Committee, it was decided to allocate 150.1 billion VND to the Technical Department to purchase supplies and equipment for the units.
At that time, Mr. Nguyen Van Son (former lieutenant general, former commander of the Coast Guard) met Mr. Nguyen Van Hung (former colonel, former Director of Engineering) and requested that when purchasing supplies and equipment, they must draw 50 billion VND to transfer back to the Coast Guard Command for use.
Mr. Hung reported to Mr. Nguyen Van Son that the Department of Engineering had never done this, withdrawing VND50 billion was huge, difficult to implement and had to be agreed upon by the Head of the Command for the Department to implement.
At that time, due to the adjustment of the Ministry of Defense to reduce the budget for administrative management allocated to the Coast Guard Command in 2019 to VND 444 billion and to facilitate Mr. VND 50 billion, so before the Standing meeting of the Party Committee on April 26, 2019, Mr. Son directed Mr. Bui Van Hoe (former colonel, former Deputy of Finance Department) to cut off all funding for equipment maintenance and repair. of 4 Coast Guard Regions to allocate an additional 29 billion VND to the Technical Department.
As a result, the budget for the Technical Department was increased to 179.1 billion VND.
At the beginning of April 2019, at the dining room of the Head of the Coast Guard Command, Mr. Son discussed with Mr. Hoang Van Dong (former lieutenant general, former political commissar); Doan Bao Quyet (former major general, former deputy political commissar); Pham Kim Hau (former major general, former Deputy Commander, former Chief of Staff); Bui Trung Dung (former major general, former deputy commander) on directing Mr. Hung to withdraw 50 billion dong from the 2019 administrative budget and allocate it to the Technical Department to pay for the Heads of Command. At that time, all agreed and there were no other opinions.
On May 4, 2019, Mr. Nguyen Van Son signed a decision to assign the budget estimate to the Technical Department of 179.1 billion VND and continued to ask Mr. Hung to withdraw 50 billion VND to transfer to the High Command.
Obeying the direction, Mr. Hung exchanged and asked the 6 heads of the professional departments of the Technical Department to withdraw the total amount of 50 billion dong when he made expenditures of the administrative management budget for Mr. Hung to transfer back to the Head. Command used for general purposes.
The department heads all reported to Mr. Hung that it was difficult to implement, but Mr. Hung continued to ask these 6 department heads to determine that the withdrawal of VND 50 billion was a task assigned by the Head of the Command and had to be completed.
Next, the department heads divided the allocated budget into 29 bidding packages, of which 9 packages were valued at less than VND 10 billion for approval by the Coast Guard Commander, without having to report to the Ministry of National Defense.
Department heads also contacted contractors to raise prices to support the unit with capital funds used for welfare purposes. In order to participate in the bidding and win the bid, enterprises agree to raise the price of materials and equipment or deduct profits from the price survey to build the bid package price in order to withdraw 50 billion VND to pay back to the Ministry of Industry and Trade. Commander of the Coast Guard.
After receiving VND 50 billion, Mr. Nguyen Van Son shared 10 billion VND for himself and Mr. Dong, Hau, Quyet and Dung each.
On June 19, 2020, Mr. Pham Kim Hau (former major general, former Deputy Commander, former Chief of Staff) made an application to the authorities, enclosed with 2 recording files reflecting negative and corruption. of himself and his accomplices.
The allegation that the cause of the crime is that the defendants obeyed discipline, the Law was not strict, and took advantage of their assigned positions and powers to appropriate money for personal gain. Moreover, the inspection and supervision of functional agencies is still lacking, which is a condition that gives rise to crimes and violations of discipline.
