Defendants at the first-instance trial (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA)🌠 – The Hanoi People’s Court hasreceived appeals of 12 defendants in the case relating to Viet A Company over one month after the first-instance trial.
Specifically, Phan Quoc Viet, General Director of the Viet ACompany, and Nguyen Thanh Long, formerMinister of Health, appealed for reducing their penalties. Vu Dinh Hiep,Deputy General Director of the Viet A Company asked the court to reconsider the charge on him. The other 10 defendants asked for reduction of their sentences. Viet A Company also filed an appeal requesting not toconfiscate the money gained illegally fromselling test kits to organisations and individuals that were notprosecuted in the case. It asked the appeal court to lift restriction measures on bank accounts of Viet A and its affiliates that are not related to the case. In the first-instance trial from January 3-12 with 38 defendants, Viet was sentenced to 29 years in jail for giving bribes and violatingbidding regulations, causing serious consequences. Long was sentenced 18 yearsin prison for taking bribes.
Chu Ngoc Anh, former Minister of Science and Technology,and Pham Cong Tac, former Deputy Minister of Science and Technology, weresentenced to three years in prison for violating regulations on the managementand use of State assets, causing losses and wastefulness.
Pham Xuan Thang, former Secretary of the Hai Duongprovincial Party Committee, Pham Manh Cuong, former Director of Hai Duongprovince’s Department of Health, and Nguyen Van Trinh, former assistant to aDeputy Prime Minister were sentenced to five years, four years, and four yearsin prison, respectively, for abusing positions and power while performingofficial duties.
𒅌 Other defendants in the COVID-19 kit test scandal receivedimprison sentences ranging from 24 months to five years and six months in jail./.
The Ministry of Public Security’s Investigation Police Agency has recently delivered its investigation conclusions and proposed the Supreme People's Procuracy prosecute 38 individuals involving in the COVID-19 test kit overcharging at Viet A company.
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Viet A Technologies JSC Phan Quoc Viet has been sentenced a total of 25 years in prison on charges of "abusing position and power while on duty" and “violating bidding regulations, causing serious damages”, in the COVID-19 test kit case at the Viet A Technologies JSC and the Vietnam Military Medical University (VMMU).
The Hanoi People's Court on January 3 commenced the first-instance trial of 38 defendants involving in a case at Viet A Technology JSC, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST), and relevant units and organisations.
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The activities include a Vietnamese language teaching training course for overseas Vietnamese teachers from August 13 to 28 in Hanoi, Ninh Binh, and Thai Nguyen.
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