Phuc Son Group's violations were forewarned many years ago.

Regarding the case that occurred at Phuc Son Group, up to now, many defendants who are high-ranking officials of localities have been in trouble with the law. Lieutenant General To An Xo (spokesperson of the Ministry of Public Security) called this a type of crime that attacks with "sugar-coated bullets" in which the victims had "high blood sugar levels, causing immunodeficiency and loss of resistance".

It is worth mentioning that the violations of Phuc Son Group were not just discovered now, but were warned about a long time ago, but the localities have not yet completely handled them.

On June 30, 2021, the Government Inspectorate issued a Notice of conclusion of the inspection of compliance with policies and laws related to BT projects using land funds for payment in the Nha Trang Airport area, Khanh Hoa province.

Previously, in 2019, the Central Inspection Committee also warned when the billion-dollar projects of Phuc Son Group were not completed and put into operation by the end of 2017 as committed to the locality.

According to the Government Inspectorate, there are 6 BT projects with the policy of using land funds for payment in the Nha Trang airport area, Khanh Hoa province. Of these, 3 projects are invested by Phuc Son Group Joint Stock Company, including: Project of roads and traffic intersections connecting Nha Trang airport area; Ngoc Hoi traffic intersection project; Belt road project connecting Ngoc Hoi traffic intersection.

In these 3 projects, Khanh Hoa has handed over land to pay back capital to Phuc Son.

In particular, the project of roads and traffic intersections connecting to Nha Trang airport: total estimated investment capital is 725.3 billion VND; land for capital repayment has been handed over 4.07 hectares with an estimated land value of more than 741.6 billion VND.

BT project at Ngoc Hoi traffic intersection: estimated total investment capital of 1,378.9 billion VND; 5.37 hectares of land for capital recovery have been handed over, total estimated land value of 1,358.4 billion VND.

BT project of the belt road connecting Ngoc Hoi traffic intersection: total estimated investment capital of 1,180.1 billion VND; land for payment has been delivered 9.68 hectares with a total estimated land value of 1,099.25 billion VND.

The Government Inspectorate concluded that 3 BT projects in Khanh Hoa province assigned to Phuc Son Group Joint Stock Company as the investor committed many violations.

That is not fulfilling the commitments that the province submitted to get the Prime Minister to "agree in principle to allow the application of the form of selecting investors in special cases".

The total investment of BT projects that Khanh Hoa Provincial People's Committee approved for Phuc Son to implement increased by more than 484 billion VND compared to the province's proposal and the document approved by the Prime Minister (July 2016).

Meanwhile, the implementation time of Phuc Son's BT projects increased by 30 months.

However, those BT projects were not completed and put into use according to the contract by the end of 2017. And although the province extended the deadline until June 2021, by the time of inspection, Phuc Son had only completed 27% of the construction and installation volume (the total investment value was only equivalent to 558 billion VND for construction and installation and 394.4 billion VND for compensation and site clearance costs).

The preparation, appraisal, approval of projects, and signing of contracts for BT projects with Phuc Son had errors in standards, unit prices, construction methods, etc., increasing the total investment to nearly 500 billion VND.

The Government Inspectorate also concluded that the violations in the Khanh Hoa Provincial People's Committee receiving the Nha Trang airport land fund from the Ministry of National Defense and simultaneously handing over the land to Phuc Son Company (December 2015) without a decision on land recovery, land allocation, and land lease were not in accordance with the provisions of the 2013 Land Law.

Then, from October 2016, Khanh Hoa Provincial People's Committee issued decisions and adjustment decisions, allocating more than 62.3 hectares of Nha Trang airport land to Phuc Son Company to lease land to implement the Nha Trang urban center project of trade - service - finance - tourism without bidding to select investors, which is a violation of the Investment Law.

The approval of the detailed planning (1/500) of the central area project by the People's Committee of Khanh Hoa province and the local adjustment of the Nha Trang commercial - service - financial - tourism urban center project according to Phuc Son's proposal violated the general planning of Nha Trang city according to the Prime Minister's decision and violated the zoning plan (1/2000) previously approved by the People's Committee of Khanh Hoa province.

InKhanh Hoa, over the past 10 years, Phuc Son Group Joint Stock Company and its member companies have been assigned many projects, land, construction contracts, mineral resource exploitation, urban area projects and BT "land exchange" projects to recover capital at the old Nha Trang airport.

In particular, the BT projects contracted to Phuc Son as the investor have allocated land to recover capital at Nha Trang airport and Phuc Son has divided and sold land plots since 2017, but up to now, they have not been completed according to the signed contract and have been extended many times.

In addition, the projects have caused many complaints and denunciations by many affected residents. The land recovered and assigned to Phuc Son to carry out business projects in the urban areas of Phuc Khanh 1 and Phuc Khanh 2 have now become "suspended projects".

Khanh Hoa province granted investment certificates to Phuc Son Group for these two projects in 2014, with a total investment capital of more than 1,500 billion VND.

Specifically, the Phuc Khanh 1 Urban Area project was granted an investment certificate to Phuc Son Group Joint Stock Company in 2014.

In 2016, the Provincial People's Committee decided to approve the investment in this project with the following schedule: Phase 1 (2015 - 2016) must complete compensation, site clearance, resettlement and carry out preparation work for technical infrastructure investment on an area of ​​12.6 hectares; Phase 2 (2017 - 2019) must complete investment in construction of the entire architectural works of the project, including: public works (kindergartens, medical stations, etc.), townhouses, villas, social housing, etc.

However, in the submission at the end of February 2020, Phuc Son Group Joint Stock Company requested to adjust the project progress to phase 1 to be completed in 2022 and phase 2 to be completed in 2026.

Phuc Khanh 2 Urban Area Project was also granted an investment certificate to Phuc Son in 2014. The investor then requested to adjust the project progress, phase 1 to complete site clearance and resettlement in 2023; phase 2 to complete investment in all works on the land by the end of 2026.

Although the progress is as planned, up to now the project has only completed some small items such as drainage, short road sections...

In Phuc Khanh 1 urban area, the locality has approved 100% of land clearance cases. In Phuc Khanh 2 urban area alone, there are still 12 cases that have not been compensated.

Although Phuc Son Group has been granted investment certificates for the two above-mentioned projects, up to now, it has not been allocated or leased land. The slow implementation of the project has caused many difficulties for people in the affected areas.

From 2019 to now, the implementation of legal procedures, compensation, and clearance has also been temporarily suspended because the investment period has expired. Currently, the authorities of Khanh Hoa province are still reviewing to have a solution for the above two projects.

InQuang NgaiPhuc Son Group and its affiliated member companies have won bids for a series of trillion-dollar projects.

In 2012, Phuc Son Group won the construction contract for the Tra Khuc River South Bank Road Project with an investment capital of nearly 1,000 billion VND.

The project has a total length of more than 8.7km, a 36m wide roadbed, and a 22m wide asphalt concrete road surface. This is a completely new investment traffic project.

At the end of 2015, Hoang Thinh Dat Joint Stock Company (a member company of Phuc Son Group) was approved by the People's Committee of Quang Ngai province to invest in a water plant project.

The project covers an area of ​​nearly 14 hectares in Nghia Ky and Nghia Thuan communes, Tu Nghia district. The plant has a total investment of VND540 billion, divided into 2 phases. The project's goal is to ensure water supply for people in Quang Ngai city and communes in Tu Nghia district.

According to the plan, the project will complete phase 1 and come into operation by the end of 2019. However, the project is still in disarray.

Next, in 2016, Hoang Thinh Dat Joint Stock Company was granted an investment registration certificate for the Dung Quat industrial urban area project in Dung Quat Economic Zone, Trung An village, Binh Thanh commune, Binh Son district.

This project is divided into 2 phases, phase 1 includes phase 1A with an area of ​​over 151 hectares and phase 1B with an area of ​​over 167 hectares, with a total investment of 2,025 billion VND. Phase 2 has an area of ​​nearly 177 hectares.

The project was expected to create a breakthrough for urban and industrial development in the north of Dung Quat Economic Zone. However, after nearly 8 years, the project remains a deserted vacant lot, although the Dung Quat Economic Zone Management Board and Quang Ngai Industrial Zones have continuously urged Hoang Thinh Dat Joint Stock Company to soon complete legal procedures, construct and put Dung Quat Industrial Urban Area into operation.

InVinh PhucPhuc Son Group is also the investor of a series of large projects such as Phuc Son commercial and residential center, Vinh Tuong wholesale market...

With a total project cost of about VND1,668 billion, the Phuc Son Commercial and Residential Center (Phase 2) is on the list of slow-progressing projects announced by Vinh Phuc province. According to the investment approval license, the project must be completed by the end of 2021.

This project of Phuc Son Group has a total scale of more than 127 hectares, of which phase 1 has an area of ​​about 15.5 hectares, phase 2 has an area of ​​about 111.8 hectares. The expected population size of both phases is 15,788 people.

The Vinh Tuong agricultural and food wholesale market, logistics system and commercial urban area were initially invested by Thang Long Investment, Trade and Real Estate Joint Stock Company with a total investment capital of more than VND 2,000 billion. By 2019, the project was transferred to Phuc Son Group.

Currently, the project has undergone a total of 4 planning adjustments, but at present it is still deserted.

The total area of ​​this project is over 186 hectares, located in the territory of 3 communes Lung Hoa, Tan Tien and Yen Lap in the west of Vinh Tuong district, Vinh Phuc province. Of which, the urban area has an area of ​​nearly 93 hectares; the market and transportation warehouse area has an area of ​​over 61 hectares... The project is located through the land with National Highway 2 running through it, part of the National Highway 2 expansion project Vinh Yen - Viet Tri section that is being implemented.

Tu Trung - Vinh Tuong new urban area is one of the "huge" projects of Phuc Son Group in Vinh Phuc. The project has a scale of 30.2 hectares, of which residential land is 12.6 hectares, commercial service land is 1,384 square meters. The project has a total of 400 townhouses, villas, shophouses, and apartments.

In June 2021, Vinh Phuc Department of Construction granted a construction permit to Phuc Son Group, this enterprise was allocated land in the first phase by the province to implement the project.

In 2022, this project was "named" by the Vinh Phuc Department of Construction in the list of 28 real estate projects that have not been allowed to transfer land use rights with infrastructure investment.

The project to invest in and upgrade the Red River left dike was invested from the State budget and approved by the People's Committee of Vinh Phuc province in 2010, with an implementation period of 5 years (2010-2015).

The project to invest in the construction of the Red River dike upgrading and upgrading project combined with a traffic route of about 28km, including 17km through Vinh Tuong and 11km through Yen Lac district.

The project has a total investment of more than 1,500 billion VND. Of which, the investment capital from the central budget is 70%, the remaining 30% is from the provincial budget. The project investor is the People's Committee of Vinh Tuong district, the project consultant is ICA Vietnam Architecture Consulting Joint Stock Company.

In this project, Phuc Son Group received two packages No. 1 and No. 3 with a total investment capital of more than 940 billion VND. These two packages were repeatedly urged by the People's Committee of Vinh Phuc province and the People's Committee of Vinh Tuong district because of the delay in progress, affecting the local development.

In 2015, Phuc Son Company was approved by Vinh Phuc Provincial People's Committee to invest in the construction of Thien An Vien Cemetery Park.

Thien An Vien is built on an area of ​​over 118 hectares, mainly infertile hilly land in Khai Quang ward, Dinh Trung commune (Vinh Yen city) and part of Kim Long commune (Tam Duong district). The project has a total investment of over 1,492 billion VND.

Thien An Vien is advertised as the largest and most modern cemetery park project in Southeast Asia, however, after nearly 10 years, this project is still a vacant lot.

The investment project to build a new headquarters for Vinh Phuc Province's High School of Culture and Arts was approved in 2006 with a total investment of nearly 100 billion VND, but to date the project has not been completed.

At the time of approval, the planners of the Vinh Phuc Department of Construction ignored the 2004 adjustment project for the general planning of Vinh Yen city. Specifically, this is the road parallel to the Hanoi - Lao Cai railway at the intersection with the Vinh Yen city belt road.

By 2012, after the Provincial People's Committee approved the route and detailed planning of this road, the overlapping planning could not be corrected.

As a result, up to now, not only has the provincial High School of Culture and Arts not achieved its goal of upgrading to a college, but it has also been merged into Vinh Phuc College, and the project to invest in building the school's headquarters remains unfinished.

Notably, at the old headquarters of this school, a bustling row of townhouses suddenly appeared, which is the social housing project in Lien Bao ward, Vinh Yen city.

On May 20, 2011, the People's Committee of Vinh Phuc province approved the detailed planning of the high-rise residential area at the old headquarters of Vinh Phuc High School of Culture and Arts, Lien Bao ward, Vinh Yen city.

In June 2012, the Provincial People's Committee recognized Phuc Son Group Joint Stock Company as the project investor. From the planning of a high-rise commercial housing area, in July 2014, Vinh Phuc Provincial People's Committee suddenly adjusted the planning, accordingly changing it to a high-rise social housing area, along with decisions on land recovery to hand over to Phuc Son Group Joint Stock Company as the investor.

Despite many violations, most recently, in 2022, Phuc Son Group was approved by the People's Committee of Quang Ngai province to invest in the Bau Giang urban area project.

The project will be implemented within 6 years from the date of selecting the investor. The project's operating period is 49 years from the date of the decision on land allocation and land lease.

This is an urban area project that selects investors through bidding, invested with the goal of building a new civilized, modern urban area with synchronous technical and social infrastructure, as well as closely connected with the surrounding landscape, in accordance with the planning orientation of Quang Ngai City and Tu Nghia District.

The project area is 495,932 m2, including 294 commercial houses located on the main road with an area of ​​46,089 m2, 274 social houses with an area of ​​19,292 m2, 795 land lots. The total investment capital of the project is up to 3,318 billion VND.

Although it has only just been licensed, Nguyen Van Hau - Chairman of the Board of Directors of Phuc Son Group Joint Stock Company - has been preparing for the above project for a long time. In 2018, this 8X tycoon established Bau Giang Urban Area LLC in Quang Ngai. The company's initial charter capital was only 20 billion VND.

By 2019, Nguyen Van Hau became Chairman and General Director of the company, increasing its equity to VND250 billion. In both 2019 and 2020, Bau Giang Company did not earn any money, reporting losses of VND494 million and VND1 billion, respectively.

On February 26, 2024, Nguyen Van Hau (Hau Phao) and three officials at Phuc Son Group, namely Nguyen Thi Hang (Deputy General Director), Do Thi Mai (Chief Accountant), Hoang Thi Tuyet Hanh (Accountant) and Tran Huu Dinh (Director of Nam A Group Investment Joint Stock Company), Nguyen Hong Son (freelance worker) were prosecuted and detained by the Ministry of Public Security's Investigation Police Agency to investigate the crime of Violating accounting regulations causing serious consequences.

Expanding the investigation, up to now, the Ministry of Public Security has prosecuted and temporarily detained a total of 17 defendants, including 1 Provincial Party Secretary, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; 2 Provincial People's Committee Chairmen; 1 former Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; along with a series of leaders of Phuc Son Group and related subjects...

Most recently, on March 27, 2024, the Ministry of Public Security's Investigation Police Agency (C03) issued a Decision to prosecute the accused, an Arrest Warrant for temporary detention, and a Search Warrant against Mr. Le Viet Chu, former Vice Chairman, former Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, former Secretary of the Quang Ngai Provincial Party Committee and Mr. Pham Hoang Anh, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, former Director of the Department of Construction of Vinh Phuc province, both for the crime of "Receiving bribes", as prescribed in Clause 4, Article 354 of the Penal Code.

The Ministry of Public Security's Investigation Police Agency determined that: During the performance of his duties, the defendant Le Viet Chu received money from Nguyen Van Hau to facilitate the Phuc Son Group Joint Stock Company to win the bid for the "Construction of the main route of the Tra Khuc River South Bank Road Project, Quang Ngai Province".

Meanwhile, defendant Pham Hoang Anh received money from Nguyen Van Hau to create conditions for Hau's enterprise to carry out the Vinh Tuong Wholesale Market project in Vinh Phuc.

Authorities said this was the result of an investigation into a major case involving Phuc Son Group’s investment in 21 projects. The police are currently focusing on investigating the defendants’ violations in Vinh Phuc and Quang Ngai provinces, as well as investigating other related violations.

Nguyen Van Hau is said to have influenced, manipulated, pressured, and forced a number of defendants who were former members of the Standing Committee, even the Standing Committee of Vinh Phuc Provincial Party Committee, for personal gain.

To do this, they took advantage of the close relationships of people in positions of authority. The Ministry of Public Security considers this behavior to be very dangerous, a new form of crime, not only causing damage to the property of the State and the people, but also affecting the normal operation of the political system, tarnishing the image of the Party and the People's Government.