Viet A Company appeals to claim debt of more than 1,200 billion VND from 80 partners

Today, May 16, the appeal hearing to consider the appeal for a reduced sentence of former Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long, General Director of Viet A Company Phan Quoc Viet and many defendants in the case related to Viet A Technology Joint Stock Company continued the questioning session.

Before that, the court gave time for parties with related rights and obligations to present their appeals.

Viet A proposes not to confiscate and transfer to the state budget more than 630 billion VND

In this case, Viet A Company filed an appeal requesting not to confiscate to the state budget the amount of money determined to be illegally profited from selling test kits to organizations and individuals not considered for prosecution in the case.

Viet A requires organizations that purchase test kits from this company without going through the bidding process to pay Viet A according to the signed contract.

Viet A also appealed to the appellate court to cancel the measures to freeze and restrict transactions on the bank accounts of this enterprise and companies in the Viet A system that are not related to the case...

At court, the representative of Viet A Company said that the first instance judgment ordered the confiscation of more than 630 billion VND of the company's money, because it was considered illegal profit from bidding violations.

Viet A's representative said that this ruling was "baseless" because in reality the company used its own research results, not results from a project using the state budget, to produce COVID-19 test kits.

A representative of Viet A Company also said that among the units that Viet A sells test kits to, in addition to medical facilities using the budget, there are many private enterprises and corporations that are not subject to the law on bidding, but are only civil transactions.

"Therefore, the first instance verdict determining that the company illegally profited and confiscating the entire amount of more than 630 billion VND is unreasonable," said the representative of Viet A.

The chairman immediately asked: "So, in your opinion, how much is reasonable to confiscate?". The representative of Viet A Company requested to return the entire amount, and if any unit requests compensation, the company will pay.

Viet A also appealed to claim debt of more than 1,200 billion VND.

In addition, Viet A representative also appealed to claim over 1,200 billion VND in debt from 80 units. Of which, state-owned units owe over 674 billion VND, and private units owe over 563 billion VND.

The company wants the appeals court to order its partner to pay it.

Regarding this issue, the jury said that the debt between the two parties was a civil transaction, not related to the defendants' criminal acts, so the court did not consider it. Viet A Company has the right to file a civil lawsuit against the units that still owe money for its test kits.

Finally, Viet A representative said that the bank accounts of Viet A Company and companies in the system are still frozen. This causes many difficulties for businesses, making it impossible to withdraw money to maintain business activities.

The company representative hopes that the jury will recommend to the investigation agency to lift the freeze on these accounts.

With this content, the presiding judge explained that the trial panel only considered the contents in the first instance judgment. For the contents not in the first instance judgment, even if there is an appeal, the appellate court will not consider it.