How did the Editor-in-Chief of the Vietnam Environment and Urban Electronic Magazine organize the extortion of tens of billions of dong?

Vietnam Urban and Environment Electronic Magazine is the mouthpiece of the Vietnam Urban and Industrial Zone Environment Association, with Mr. Dong Xuan Thu as Editor-in-Chief.

Since 2020, Mr. Dong Xuan Thu has directed the establishment of the "Golden Broom" fundraising program. In the name of honoring, supporting, and doing charity work to help environmental sanitation workers nationwide in difficult circumstances, Mr. Thu directed cadres, reporters, and collaborators to call for and mobilize organizations, individuals, and businesses to participate in donating money to raise funds.

However, the "Golden Broom" program launched and initiated by Mr. Thu and the Environment and Urban Magazine has created a sophisticated cover, a tool for subjects to collude, conspire, and connect with each other to operate, extort property from hundreds of victims across the country, with a total amount of up to tens of billions of dong.

Specifically, Mr. Thu and his subordinates directed reporters and collaborators to investigate and grasp signs of violations by organizations, individuals, businesses... Then threatened and published them in this magazine to discredit and affect the production and business activities of people and businesses.

If they do not want to be "named" in magazines, individuals and businesses are forced to participate in the "Golden Broom" program proposed by the subjects.

Therefore, in working sessions with people and businesses, these subjects always bring a "sponsorship invitation" contract for the "Golden Broom" program. When they force the victims to participate, they ask them to sign it to collect money.

Mr. Thu and the subjects did not spend the collected money on the "Golden Broom" program but used it to divide and distribute among themselves according to the prescribed ratio...