Former AIC President Nguyen Thi Thanh Nhan was proposed to receive an additional sentence of 10-11 years in prison.

On October 24, the People's Court continued the second working day of the first-instance trial of defendant Nguyen Thi Thanh Nhan - former Chairwoman of the Board of Directors and General Director of AIC Company and 15 accomplices for violating bidding regulations causing serious consequences.

Before entering the debate, the representative of the People's Procuracy of Quang Ninh province argued and proposed sentences for the defendants.

Regarding the 14 defendants brought to trial for the crime of "Violating bidding regulations causing serious consequences", based on the case file, the trial proceedings and the defendants' testimonies, the representative of the People's Procuracy of Quang Ninh province requested the People's Court to sentence defendant Nguyen Thi Thanh Nhan - former Chairwoman of the Board of Directors and General Director of AIC Company to 10-11 years in prison.

Defendant Nguyen Hong Son - former Deputy General Director of AIC Company Truong Thi Xuan Loan and former Head of Project Management Board of 3 AIC companies were proposed to be sentenced to 7-8 years in prison and 5-6 years in prison, respectively.

The representative of the People's Procuracy also requested the People's Court to sentence the defendant Nguyen Thi Thu Phuong - former Head of the Financial Secretary Department of AIC Company to 6-7 years in prison; Nguyen Thi Tich - former General Director of Mopha Company to 3-4 years in prison; Do Van Son - former Chief Accountant of AIC Company to 30-36 months in prison; Nguyen Thi Quyen - former General Director of Cimeico Valuation Company Limited to 24-30 months in prison with a suspended sentence.

The representative of the People's Procuracy of Quang Ninh province proposed to sentence the defendant Hoang Dinh Son - former Deputy Director of the Medical Construction Project Management Board under the Department of Health of Quang Ninh province to 36-42 months in prison; Nguyen Quy Thinh - former Head of the General Administration Department, Medical Construction Project Management Board under the Department of Health of Quang Ninh province to 36-42 months in prison; Pham Ngoc Dung - former specialist of the Financial Planning Department, Department of Health of Quang Ninh province: 24-30 months in prison;

Tran Quoc Cong – former Director of Uy Tin Toan Cau Joint Stock Company, 2-3 years in prison; Nguyen Anh Dung – former General Director of Phuc Hung Company, 3-4 years in prison; Ta Hai Anh – former Head of Labor Export Department of AIC Company, General Director of High Technology Company, 18-28 months in prison; Cao Viet Bach – former General Director of BVA Company, 18-28 months in prison.

The two defendants brought to trial for the crime of "Lack of responsibility causing serious consequences" are Luong Van Tam - former Director of the Management Board of Investment Projects for Health Facilities, Quang Ninh Department of Health and Le Thi Phu - Deputy Head of Price Management Department, Quang Ninh Department of Finance, respectively proposed to be sentenced to 2-3 years in prison and 30-36 months in prison with suspended sentence.

The indictment of the Supreme People's Procuracy clearly stated that Ms. Nguyen Thi Thanh Nhan was the person who established, built and operated all activities of AIC Company, its member companies and companies established by Nhan to serve the bidding.

In the project to purchase equipment for Quang Ninh Obstetrics and Pediatrics Hospital, Ms. Nhan assigned Nguyen Hong Son and Truong Thi Xuan Loan (Head of Project Management Board 3) to directly implement the project.

Loan colluded with Nguyen Duc Quang and Pham Ngoc Dung (specialist of the Office of the People's Committee of Quang Ninh province, former specialist of the Planning and Finance Department, Department of Health of Quang Ninh province) to collude on technical parameters, configuration and prices of equipment with the purpose of building bidding documents to meet bidding requirements.

The Supreme People's Procuracy determined that, knowing that AIC Company did not have enough financial capacity to participate in the bidding, Nguyen Thi Thanh Nhan directed Do Van Son (former Chief Accountant of AIC Company) to adjust data and provide dishonest information about financial capacity to commit fraud in the bidding.

The former Chairman of AIC also directed his subordinates to use companies in the AIC ecosystem as "blue troops" for AIC Company to win the bid.

Regarding the bidding documents, the prosecution agency determined that Nhan decided on the bidding price, designated the winning company, and decided on the profit ratio of AIC Company and the "blue team" companies.

Accordingly, Nhan assigned Nguyen Thi Thu Phuong to manage 4 companies in the ecosystem and the partner company to sign a joint venture agreement, prepare bidding documents to act as a "blue team" for AIC Company and Mopha Company to participate in bidding for 6 packages of the project.

As a result, AIC Company won 4 bid packages, Mopha Company won 2 bid packages to purchase equipment for the Obstetrics and Pediatrics Hospital with a total amount of more than 232 billion VND.

According to the indictment, Nguyen Thi Thanh Nhan and her accomplices caused losses to the State of more than 50 billion VND. Nguyen Thi Thanh Nhan played the role of mastermind, leading the direction and directly carrying out violations of bidding regulations.