A director puts 5 relatives in jail

Ask father-in-law, wife, sister-in-law, and sibling to register "ghost company"

In the first interrogation, defendant Mac Van Nguyen (45 years old, working in import-export services, director of many 'ghost companies') admitted to the acts as charged.

Accordingly, defendant Nguyen was prosecuted by the Supreme People's Procuracy for three crimes of fraud, property appropriation, smuggling, and illegal transportation of goods and currency across the border.

Specifically, Mr. Nguyen was accused of actively assisting Trinh Tien Dung, directly managing domestic activities from December 2018 to December 2019.

According to the indictment, Mr. Nguyen participated in the trading of electronic components, helping Dung embezzle more than 56 billion VND through value-added tax refunds of Saigon Tay Nam Company and Hoang Nam Anh Company.

In addition, he also smuggled 39 shipments worth 72 billion VND from abroad to Vietnam; used Dung's companies in and outside the country to sign import-export contracts for fake and poor quality goods, creating a cash flow to legalize the illegal transportation of 1,115 billion VND from Vietnam to foreign countries and vice versa.

In addition, Mr. Nguyen was also prosecuted by the People's Procuracy of Tay Ninh province for illegally transporting currency across the border, when he assisted Trinh Tien Dung in using Dung's companies to carry out procedures for importing and exporting counterfeit and poor-quality goods to illegally transport money from abroad into Vietnam.

According to Mr. Nguyen, the actions in the Tay Ninh case overlap with the actions in this case. However, the presiding judge said that those were independent actions of the defendant. The trial panel only considered the actions in this case.

Mr. Nguyen said he knew Trinh Tien Dung since 2014 and worked for Mr. Dung from 2015 to 2017.

Mr. Nguyen, following Trinh Tien Dung's instructions, bought floating identity cards, forged identity cards, established companies to sign fake contracts for the purchase and sale of goods; established and asked his younger brother, brother-in-law, wife, sister-in-law, brother-in-law, father-in-law, wife's friend... to be directors of 24 companies.

In this case, Mr. Nguyen brought his younger brother, defendant Mac Thanh Dan, his wife, defendant Luu Thi Lieu, his sister-in-law, defendant Luu Thi Nuong, his brother-in-law, and his brother-in-law, Du Truong Phong, to work for Dung and were all prosecuted in this case.

Mr. Nguyen affirmed that he did not benefit from anything but only stood in for Mr. Dung because of trust.

The defendants Mac Thanh Dan, Vo Thi Ngoc Ha, Duong Hoang Y Nhi, Tran Nhat Thanh, Nguyen Hoang Lan... admitted to the acts as stated in the indictment.

Mr. Trinh Tien Dung's accountant cries out for justice

Defendant Le Thi Dieu Quynh (accountant of Computer Land Electronic Services Trading Company Limited and Minh Tam Electronic Services Trading Company Limited) disagreed with the entire content of the indictment.

This defendant stated that regarding the crime of illegally transporting goods and currency across the border, he collected and spent money from customers and transferred money according to the instructions of his superiors, but did not balance the money as stated in the indictment.

The defendant is the accountant in charge of Trinh Tien Dung's income and expenditure. Specifically, since March 2019, Quynh has been monitoring Dung's personal account, and in early 2020, she also monitored Tran Nhat Thanh's account.

Quynh said that when the superior told her to transfer money, she transferred it without knowing the content of the transfer. When the transfer was completed, she reported it to the boss, without balancing the cash flow.

Quynh affirmed that the defendant only monitored the income and expenditure of personal accounts, so he could not know if the goods were fake, the contracts were fake, or the companies were ghost companies.

The judge said that the defendant needed to review whether such revenue and expenditure were in accordance with the Accounting Law.

Regarding the capital contribution, Quynh stated that he only thought about the company's normal business. Initially, the defendant's salary was 5 million/month, which later increased to 10 million/month, but due to the large amount of revenue and expenditure, he asked to quit his job. Mr. Trinh Tien Dung persuaded him to stay and work and let him contribute capital to the company.

"The defendant did not know that this capital contribution was intended to defraud the State. The defendant was only a means for Mr. Dung to defraud. The defendant contributed about 200 million VND, but this amount is still under Mr. Dung's management and has not benefited from any of it," Quynh cried.

According to the indictment, Quynh was in charge of finance, managing revenue and expenditure, balancing cash flow in and out of 'ghost' companies to sign domestic contracts and import-export contracts from the end of 2018 to December 2020. These companies issued value-added invoices to Thuduc House and Saigon Tay Nam Company so that Thuduc House and Saigon Tay Nam could export and refund hundreds of billions of dong in value-added tax.

In addition, Quynh also contributed capital with Trinh Tien Dung many times with a total of 1.7 billion VND to serve the purchase and export of electronic components with Saigon Tay Nam Company, earning a profit of 226 million VND.

According to Tuoi Tre