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On the afternoon of December 10, the trial of 10 defendants in the case of price increases for COVID-19 testing machines at the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Hanoi continued to work with the interrogation.
Defendants Nguyen Nhat Cam (left) and Nguyen Ngoc Nhat in court
Intend to spend money for “heart”
According to the VKSND Supreme indictment, Nguyen Ngoc Nhat (staff of Vitech Science Development Co., Ltd.) and Nguyen Thanh Tuyen (employee of Phuong Dong Medical Equipment Co., Ltd.) discussed and agreed on the assignment of Nhat purchased the system of tested COVID-19 from Phuong Dong Company, then found a contractor to sell to CDC Hanoi.
In particular, the two defendants gave a plan to spend 10% of the value of the product for former CDC Hanoi director Nguyen Nhat Cam to make sure the tender was won. After deducting all expenses, Tuyen and Nhat will divide the difference between Phuong Dong Company’s purchase price and CDC Hanoi’s sale price.
On February 6, 2020, Nhat and Tuyen met with Mr. Cam at CDC Hanoi headquarters. Here, after Mr. Cam agreed to purchase the automated real-time PCR system for 7 billion VND, Nhat promised to spend 15% (before VAT) of the value of the system for Mr. Cam.
In response to the court, both Mr. Cam and Nhat repeatedly stated that the content of the accusation in the above circumstances is not correct, there is no 15% agreement between the two.
Cam’s defense attorney asked Nhat why there are two figures of 10% and 15%. Nhat confessed when Tuyen and Tuyen discussed the decision to pay Mr. Cam 10%, but then the defendant raised it to 15%.
However, the nature of the figure was not that alleged by the VKS. According to Nhat, this 15% is the amount calculated on the profit that Nhat makes from participating in the purchase and sale of machinery systems for CDC Hanoi (around 90 million VND), not 15% of the contract value (around 950 millions).
Nhat also stated that the purpose of wanting to give the money above to the former CDC Hanoi director came from his “heart”, completely voluntary. In fact, the defendant did not discuss or exchange anything with Mr. Cam about this amount.
VKS representatives have prosecution rights
Negotiate to “reduce the tax burden”
In implementing the agreement with Nguyen Thanh Tuyen, Nguyen Ngoc Nhat spoke about Dao The Vinh (Director of Scientific and Commercial Materials Company Ltd. of Vietnam – MST) to participate in the sale of the automatic real-time PCR system and extraction machine Automatic DNA / RNA System from Phuong Dong Company for CDC Hanoi. Vinh will receive 1.5% of the value of the contract.
In fact, the automatic real-time PCR system and automatic DNA / RNA extraction machine at the time Phuong Dong company was sold alone cost more than 4.1 billion VND. However, when these two products arrive at CDC Hanoi, the “equipment price” will be up to VND 8.2 billion.
To reduce the price difference, Vinh uses legal entities that are family businesses to negotiate. Specifically, Phuong Dong Company sells to Hung Long Trading and Technology Joint Stock Company (headed by Vinh’s wife as a director) for more than VND 4.1 billion. Hung Long Company sold again to JSC Production, Import-Export Business for a price of VND 5.2 billion. KĐ continued to sell to Vinh Tax Code Company for more than VND 7.8 billion. Finally, MST Company sold to CDC Hanoi for 8.2 billion.
According to VKS, only Phuong Dong Company issued real invoices for sales with a contract value of more than 4.1 billion VND, the rest of the companies were fake contracts and invoices.
Responding to the court, Vinh admitted the prosecution’s accusation. The defendant said that he did not participate in the price agreement for the test machine system, but that he only cared that his company would profit 1.5% if Nhat loaned a legal entity to participate in the tender.
When asked why he bought and sold through many companies before selling to CDC Hanoi, Vinh said his businesses were under so much pressure, including paying taxes. Moving products to many companies before reaching the CDC is to reduce the tax burden, not for the purpose of fraudulent invoices.
The court continues to work tomorrow morning (12-11).
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The meal rate divided by the amount collected. In court, the representative of VKS asked Dao The Vinh about the distribution of the benefits of the implementation of package 15. Do Vinh said “I do not understand”, so the prosecutor announced the testimony of the defendant in the investigating agency, related to the part of the Realtime PCR system automatically and the automatic DNA / RNA extraction machine worth 8.2 billion. copper. Accordingly, the amount purchased from Phuong Dong Company is more than 4.1 billion, other costs are 1.2 billion, the total profit is 2.7 billion. This amount, Nhat and Tuyen each receive 767 million, a part is expected to be divided between Mr. Cam and Vinh. |
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