On January 31, information from the People’s Court of Hanoi, following nearly a month of sentencing with 36 defendants in the case of bidding violations of AIC Company that occurred at Dong Nai General Hospital, so far there are 16 people. appeal.
AIC Company appealed the civil part, requesting to re-evaluate the value of damage that AIC Company must compensate.
In this case, the court sentenced the defendants for the following crimes: Violating regulations on bidding, causing serious consequences; Give bribes; Bribery; Abusing positions and powers while performing official duties; Lack of responsibility causes serious consequences.
All eight defendants who fled in this case were appealed on behalf of defense attorneys. Among them, defendant’s lawyer Nguyen Thi Thanh Nhan appealed the entire first-instance judgment, arguing that there were not enough grounds to prove that defendant Nhan was the mastermind, leader, and director of the bid collusion, the valuation of damages. The damage is too high and has not been clarified at the first instance court. Since then, the lawyer proposed to cancel the first-instance judgment for re-investigation.
The lawyer of the defendant Tran Manh Ha (on the run), Deputy General Director of AIC Company appealed the entire judgment and said that the first-instance court had not evaluated the evidence objectively, comprehensively and in accordance with the law. , does not guarantee the rights of defendant Ha.
The lawyer of defendant Nguyen Thi Sen (on the run), former Director of Medical Equipment and Environment Company and defendant Do Van Son, former Chief Accountant of AIC Company appealed the entire first-instance judgment and let that this judgment does not ensure the provisions of the law, affecting the interests of the two defendants Sen and Son.
Lawyers for the defendants Do My Hanh, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Cat Van Sa Company; Ngo The Vinh, Director of Viet Tien Company and Nguyen Thi Tich, General Director of Mopha Company all asked to reduce the punishment for the defendants; request for penalty exemption and removal of the wanted for defendant Vinh.
Particularly, defendant Nguyen Dang Thuyet, former director of Thanh An Hanoi Company, in addition to the appeal made by the defense lawyer, defendant Thuyet also sent an appeal from the US, asking for a reduction of the penalty and asking receive a suspended sentence.
Defendant Hoang Thi Thuy Nga, Deputy General Director of AIC Company appealed on the grounds that she was not the mastermind. The defendant performed the work as authorized by the General Director, the assessment of damage and the part of the damage attributed to the defendant was too large compared to reality.
Defendant Russia said that the civil plaintiff did not ask the defendant to pay compensation, the civil defendant was AIC Company who accepted the responsibility to compensate for all damages, AIC Company selected the most advanced equipment for the patient. hospital should not have equivalent equipment.
In this case, former Secretary of the Dong Nai Provincial Party Committee Tran Dinh Thanh and former Chairman of the Dong Nai Provincial People’s Committee Dinh Quoc Thai did not appeal and accepted the penalty of 11 years in prison and 9 years in prison for the same crime of accepting bribes. .
According to the decision of the first-instance judgment, the court sentenced Nhan to a total of 30 years in prison for “Bribery” and “Violation of regulations on bidding, causing serious consequences”. Along with these two crimes, Tran Manh Ha was sentenced to a total of 25 years in prison.
The remaining defendants were sentenced to between 30 months in prison and 19 years in prison.
The first-instance judgment stated that this is a particularly serious case, the defendants’ acts violated the State’s management regulations on bidding, causing great property damage to the State. severe punishment, commensurate with the level of criminal acts of the accused, in order to warn, deter and improve the quality of crime prevention and control in the current period.
The trial panel determined that Nguyen Thi Thanh Nhan directed a number of Deputy General Directors and subordinate staff to contact and coordinate with the investor, consulting and valuation units to carry out bidding activities. , fraud in bidding, restriction or exclusion of competition in bidding helped AIC Company win 16 bidding packages, causing damage to the State more than 148 billion VND.
For former Secretary of the Dong Nai Provincial Party Committee Tran Dinh Thanh, the court determined that defendant Thanh had repeatedly received a total amount of 14.5 billion dong from Nguyen Thi Thanh Nhan to direct and influence subordinates to facilitate AIC’s success. won 16 medical equipment packages at the request of Nguyen Thi Thanh Nhan. The behavior of defendant Thanh, who was prosecuted by the Procuracy for the crime of “receiving bribes” is grounded, right person, right crime, right law.
Regarding civil, the Court of First Instance determined that AIC Company asked for compensation of VND 152 billion, but the collateral was not enough, so it was only partially recorded. Therefore, AIC Company, defendants Nhan, Tran Manh Ha and Hoang Thi Thuy Nga are jointly responsible for compensation.
The group of defendants Tran Dinh Thanh, Dinh Quoc Thai, Phan Huy Anh Vu, and Bo Ngoc Thu had to pay illegal profits, the Court noted that these defendants had paid back the full amount. The “green army” businesses in the case also have to pay back the illicit money.
Hoang Viet
