2024-02-16 11:05:02
On February 16, the People’s Court of Ho Chi Minh City said that it had decided to conduct a first instance trial of the case that occurred at the Group. Van Thinh Phat and Saigon Commercial Joint Stock Bank (SCB). Accordingly, the trial period is from March 5 to April 29.
The trial was chaired by Judge Pham Luong Toan, Chief of the Criminal Court of Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court. The Supreme People’s Procuracy assigned 10 prosecutors from the Supreme People’s Procuracy and the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Procuracy to hold the right to prosecute in court. Nearly 200 lawyers participated in defending the defendants and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of relevant parties. Among them, defendant Truong My Lan has 5 defense lawyers.
In this case, Ms Truong My Lan was prosecuted for 3 crimes: Property embezzlement, bribery and violating lending regulations in the operations of credit institutions.
The two defendants Truong My Lan and Truong Hue Van
The remaining 85 defendants include 45 former leaders and officers of SCB Bank; 15 former State Bank officials; 3 former Government Inspectorate officers; A former State Audit officer was prosecuted by the Supreme People’s Procuracy for the following crimes: Asset embezzlement, Receiving bribes, Abusing position and power while performing official duties, Lack of responsibility causing serious consequences and Violating regulations. regulations on banking operations. Currently, 5 defendants, former leaders of SCB and its affiliates, are still on the run.
According to the indictment, during the period from 2012 to 2022, Ms. Truong My Lan, Chairman of Van Thinh Phat, acquired and actually held a nearly absolute number of shares of SCB (from 85% to 91.5% % of shares), thereby becoming a powerful shareholder.
Truong My Lan and many accomplices carried out a series of actions including selecting and placing their trusted personnel in key positions at SCB Bank, establishing a number of specialized units for lending and disbursement according to the law. request of Chairman Van Thinh Phat.
The Van Thinh Phat group also established and used thousands of “ghost” companies, paid money to hire many individuals and colluded with individuals leading many related businesses, and colluded with valuation companies to raise prices. falsifying the value of collateral assets, preparing false loan documents to “drain” SCB Bank.
Investigation results determined that among the 875 customers whose names helped Ms. Lan’s group borrow 1,284 loans at SCB, there were 440 individuals and 435 legal entities. The legal entities are all “ghost” companies, which Ms. Lan directed her subordinates to set up to handle disbursement procedures. In order to have legal collateral for loans with an amount of more than 1 million billion and “gut” the bank, Truong My Lan used many collateral assets that did not meet legal requirements and inflated the value. up many times.
With the tactic of “bribing” the appraisal company, the collateral for Van Thinh Phat’s false loan contracts was “inflated” many times in price to withdraw large amounts of money.
Ms. Truong My Lan, along with many key leaders at SCB, also made plans to withdraw money, “cut off” cash flow following disbursement, sell bad debt, and sell deferred credit grants to reduce credit balances and reduce debt. bad debt, to hide mistakes. Truong My Lan spent a large amount of 5.2 million USD on bribes and paid bribes to influence people with positions and powers in state agencies to violate their official duties.
Ms. Do Thi Nhan, former Director of the Department of Inspection and Supervision of the State Bank, is the only defendant prosecuted for accepting bribes in the Van Thinh Phat case, having received 5.2 million USD to assist in the cover-up. hid SCB’s weak situation, helping the bank escape special control.
The Procuracy alleges that from February 9, 2018 to October 7, 2022, defendant Lan directed the preparation of 916 false loan applications to withdraw money from SCB Bank, thereby appropriating more than 304,000 billion VND. . The above act is a crime of property embezzlement. In addition, this behavior of Truong My Lan also caused a loss of profits of more than 129,000 billion VND. In addition, by violating regulations on banking activities, Truong My Lan was accused of causing losses of more than 64,000 billion.
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