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Group of defendants blackmailing traffic police in court – Photo: LIST
On the afternoon of December 18, after a day of trial, the Hanoi People’s Court sentenced Vu Thanh Hai (31 years old, from Nam Dinh) 10 years in prison, Nguyen Van Cuong (23 years) and Pham Kim Long (28 years) each 8 years in prison, Dao Vu Hung (34 years, Hai Duong) 3 years in prison and The other 6 defendants range from 15 months in suspended prison to 4 years in prison on the crime of “foreclosure”.
According to the first instance verdict, through the forum “Traffic Law and Road Safety” on Facebook by himself as administrator, Dao Vu Hung meets Vu Thanh Hai …
Through Hai, the defendants knew each other because they lived in the same hometown as Nam Dinh.
By participating in the forum, the defendants knew that Hung was the one who routinely reported violations by the traffic police or received video clips with photographs of this force believed to have committed rapes to threaten. take ownership.
Since then, the defendants have divided into groups, discussing how to steal money from the traffic police by riding motorcycles through the streets.
Upon detecting that the traffic police are on duty, they will intentionally run the vehicle in violation of traffic laws, such as: walking in the wrong lane, changing direction without signal …
The purpose of this group is for the traffic police to stop, control and drive. In the process of handling the rape, the defendants actively used their phones to secretly record video.
After that, the defendants stored them on USB flash drives, sent them to the traffic police units, and then contacted them with a spam simulator and asked them to give money to remove the videos.
Through this trick, from May 18, 2018 to June 5, 2016, Hai and his accomplices committed 8 cases of money violation by the traffic police.
In which, Hai participated in 5 cases of violation of property of 8 traffic policemen for an amount of 580 million VND. Nguyen Van Cuong participated in 4 rape cases, raising 540 million VND. Pham Kim Long raped 7 people for an amount of VND 540 million.
The remaining defendants appropriated 40 million to 300 million dong.
According to the investigative agency, 33 officers from the Hanoi Traffic Police and Police Department are present in the videos. However, this group of officials confirmed that no money was received from the violators.
