Prosecution of Director of Long An Registration Department and 8 related people

On December 24, information from the Ho Chi Minh City Police Department of Investigation, the unit issued a decision to prosecute, search, and apply preventive measures against 9 suspects related to violations and negative acts in the factory performance assessment level and related negative acts of giving, receiving, brokering bribes and fraud to appropriate property.

Among the above defendants, there are 6 people who are officials and former officials of the Inspection Sub-Departments and the River Ship Department under the Vietnam Register, including: Pham Hoai Ha - Director of the Long An Inspection Sub-Department; Nguyen Xuan Hao - inspector of the Long An Inspection Sub-Department; Do Trung Hoc - former head of the River Ship Department (retired); Le Ngoc Tu - inspector of the River Ship Department; Nguyen Thanh Le - Director of Vietship Ship Industry Design and Consulting Joint Stock Company; Vu Tien Thuat - Director of the Red River Ship Service Company Limited.

There are 3 people who are inspectors of Inspection Sub-Department No. 9: Kieu Tuan Anh, Nguyen Cong Khanh, and Luu Van Khuong.

During the search, the authorities seized many documents and evidence related to the case. The above decisions and orders were approved by the Ho Chi Minh City People's Procuracy.

According to Ho Chi Minh City Police, in order to carry out the peak of crime suppression during the Lunar New Year, the city police are focusing on expanding investigations to strictly and thoroughly handle cases.

Regarding the major case of negative acts related to vehicle inspection activities nationwide, up to now, units under the Ho Chi Minh City Police have prosecuted 7 cases and 229 defendants for the crimes of bribery, bribery acceptance, bribery brokerage and many other crimes.

Expanding the investigation into acts related to the field of Inland Waterway Registration, the Ho Chi Minh City Police Department determined that: The Vietnam Register has the function of assessing the capacity of facilities for building, converting, repairing and restoring inland waterway vehicles according to the standards of the Ministry of Transport.

During the process of inspecting and evaluating the factory's capacity, some individuals involved had negative behavior, receiving money to ignore errors, standards, and necessary conditions to evaluate the factory's capacity: factory premises, ability to supply materials and equipment for the production process, technological process, construction capacity, human resources, etc.

The Investigation Police Agency directly inspected many factories nationwide (Hai Duong, Quang Ninh, Long An, Tien Giang, Ca Mau, Can Tho, Dong Thap...), and also checked the records of facility capacity assessment at the Registry Department.

The results determined that the records of the shipyard capacity assessment were not consistent with the actual site conditions of the inspected shipyards, and many of the ships were not qualified to be granted full capacity.