When given the last word, Dang Nhu Quynh burst into tears, explaining that her health was not good. The defendant wishes to have the punishment reduced so that he can return to his family soon and get medical treatment.
On February 14, the Hanoi People’s Court opened an appeal hearing for the case “abusing democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the State”, considering the appeal of defendant Dang Nhu Quynh (43 years old).
At the trial, the defendant presented the reason for the appeal, which was the request to return the pink Samsung Note 20 Ultra phone, which was declared by the first-instance court as evidence of the case.
According to the defendant, the phone above is the property of Quynh’s daughter; The defendant also did not use the device to post articles that were determined to be false likes.
Meanwhile, the prosecution explained that the Samsung phone had the Telegram chat application installed. In this application, there are content related to 2 posts like Dang Nhu Quynh.
Before this allegation, the defendant said that Telegram accounts were synchronized on many phones. Quynh only used the iPhone 12 ProMax to “commit crimes”, but the content of the articles was synced to the Samsung device.
Defending the defendant, lawyer Giang Hong Thanh presented the Samsung Note 20 Ultra phone with spiritual value to Quynh, because it stored many pictures of the defendant’s 2 daughters.
In addition, the defendant and the defense also asked the jury to consider reducing the punishment compared to the first-instance judgment.
When given the last word, Dang Nhu Quynh burst into tears, explaining that her health was not good. The defendant wishes to have the punishment reduced so that he can return to his family soon and get medical treatment.
After 30 minutes of deliberation, the jury rejected the appeal of defendant Dang Nhu Quynh. The presiding judge of the trial said that the Samsung phone was involved in the crime, as shown in the minutes of the evidence sealing. Inside this evidence, there are many messages and articles showing the infringing content.
For the proposal to reduce the punishment, the appellate court said that the 2-year prison sentence had considered enough mitigating factors and was appropriate, so the appellate court also had no basis for mitigating.
Previously, on the followingnoon of October 27, the People’s Court of Nam Tu Liem district sentenced Dang Nhu Quynh (42 years old, from Nam Tu Liem district, Hanoi) to 2 years in prison for “abusing democratic freedoms and rights to infringe upon rights and interests.” legitimate interests of organizations and individuals”.
According to the indictment, from late 2019 to April 2022, Dang Nhu Quynh used a personal Facebook account bearing the defendant’s name to post articles composed by the defendant himself or re-share other people’s articles.
As of April, the above account has more than 300,000 followers; articles and posts that attract a large number of interactions, comments, and re-shares.
On April 2, information regarding a number of individuals who are leaders of businesses in the fields of finance, securities, and real estate appeared to have been handled by the authorities.
At that time, Dang Nhu Quynh made an inference and publicly posted on his personal Facebook an article that implied that the prosecution would criminally handle Mr. Do Anh Dung (Chairman of the Board of Directors cum General Director of the Company). Director of Tan Hoang Minh Group Joint Stock Company). Although, at that time, the City People’s Procuracy determined that the authorities had not released information related to the above case.
The defendant’s post attracted thousands of accounts to interact, comment and reshare. On April 5, the prosecution agency just announced information regarding the criminal handling of Mr. Do Anh Dung, then Dang Nhu Quynh edited the previous post, adding more content from the authorities, to orient public opinion that the defendant knows the information in advance.
Realizing that his posts attracted attention, defendant Quynh continued to post a “forecast” article regarding Mr. Nguyen Van Tuan (Chairman of the Board of Directors cum General Director of Gelex Group Joint Stock Company. , Chairman of the Board of Directors of Viglacera Corporation) was arrested.
According to the prosecution’s allegation, on April 6, Quynh posted 2 articles with false content, accompanied by a picture of Mr. Tuan, implying that this leader will be arrested by the authorities. prosecution, investigation, detention.
Following these posts, the stock ticker of Gelex Company and the group of related stocks were negatively affected.
Specifically, in the trading sessions on April 6, 7, 8, 11, and 12, 2022, these securities were ordered to sell in large quantities by investors, and the market price and capitalization decreased. strong. Since then, the VN-INDEX, HNX-INDEX, UPCOM indices were also affected, dropping sharply, causing confusion among the public and investors.
On April 12, a number of securities investors filed a complaint once morest Dang Nhu Quynh regarding abusing freedom and democracy, infringing on reputation, honor, legitimate rights and interests, and posting false information. facts adversely affect the brands, image and operations of companies, as well as stock prices, damaging the assets of investors.
On August 29, the Ministry of Information and Communications determined that defendant Quynh had violated the honor and dignity of Mr. Nguyen Van Tuan personally. Besides, the State Securities Commission also concluded that 2 articles on April 6 by Dang Nhu Quynh were one of the causes of negative effects on stock codes related to Mr. Nguyen Van Tuan. .
