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Mr. Nguyen Duc Chung is accused of plotting the theft of confidential documents – Photo: NAM TRAN
Today (December 11), the Hanoi People’s Court opened a first-instance court hearing on Nguyen Duc Chung, former chairman of the Hanoi City People’s Committee and his accomplices in the “seizure of secret state documents” case. According to the court’s decision, the case will be known in secret and will take place in one day.
Mr. Nguyen Duc Chung was brought to trial for seizing secret state documents under Clause 3, Article 337 of the 2015 Penal Code, and was prosecuted with a sentence of 10 to 15 years in prison. This is the highest penalty for this crime.
The defendant Pham Quang Dung (37 years old), a police officer from C03, Ministry of Public Security, was also prosecuted with the same sentence.
The other two defendants, Mr. Chung’s private driver, Nguyen Hoang Trung, and Nguyen Anh Ngoc, 46, former deputy director of the Hanoi People’s Committee Office, were charged with the same charges. These two people report to Mr. Chung’s subordinates, former police officers, assigned to work in the Hanoi People’s Committee Office.
The trial was presided over by Judge Truong Viet Toan, the prosecutors holding the prosecution authority are Mr. Khuat Huu Anh and Do Minh Tuan.
Mr. Nguyen Duc Chung has 4 defense attorneys. In addition, 3 other defendants are Pham Quang Dung, Nguyen Hoang Trung and Nguyen Anh Ngoc, each with a defense attorney.
In this case, it was determined that Mr. Chung was the mastermind behind the theft of confidential documents related to the Japanese crime. The accused Dung is the practitioner, Trung and Ngoc are the assistants.
3 defendants: Nguyen Anh Ngoc, Nguyen Hoang Trung and Pham Quang Dung – Photo: provided by the police
According to the indictment, in the case that occurred at the Nhat Cuong company, the investigating agency determined that Mr. Chung and his wife, Ms. Nguyen Thi Truc Chi Hoa, are individuals with related rights and obligations.
In order to gather information and documents about the investigation process of this case, Mr. Chung approved that a CEO of the company “connect” with Pham Quang Dung, who was then a C03 officer who was hired to help. Investigation of the Nhat Cuong case.
After being asked by the former president of Hanoi to provide information and documents on the Nhat Cuong company case, from July 2019 to June 2020, the defendant Pham Quang Dung repeatedly took information, documents or hacked into the office of the leader of Room 14, C03 to steal confidential documents.
The former investigator provided information and documents to Mr. Chung in three ways: through an intermediary to provide paper documents, using Viber software to transfer photo files, and using Viber to deliver change information.
The results of the investigation determined that Dung had seized 9 documents on the list of state secrets at the “Confidential” level related to the Nhat Cuong case five times, of which he passed 7 documents to Mr. Chung twice.
The indictment showed that former investigator Pham Quang Dung had planned and repeatedly attempted to steal confidential documents.
Specifically, on the night of 4-6-2020, former investigator Pham Quang Dung broke into the office of the leader of Ward 14, C03 with the aim of appropriating the documents of the Nhat Cuong case. Dung previously said that he had stolen and stolen the key to this room to implement the plan.
Here Dung took 26 research document photo files and used Viber to transfer everything to Mr. Nguyen Duc Chung. Upon receiving these documents, the former president of Hanoi continued to use Viber to transfer it to his own driver and requested to print it on paper.
The defendant Nguyen Hoang Trung asked Nguyen Anh Ngoc to print it and pass it on to Mr. Chung.
The investigating agency conducted an inspection and concluded that among the stolen documents, there were 9 secret status documents of the “Confidential” level.
The investigating agency assessed that the four defendants were officers who worked in legal protection agencies, had knowledge of the law and crime prevention operations, so they had a very sophisticated trick. “, taking advantage of technology to erase traces, concealment.
During the investigation, Mr. Chung admitted and reported his crime and repented of his repentance. The defendant was repeatedly rewarded at all levels for his outstanding achievements at work, awarded the title of Hero of the People’s Armed Forces, a history of cancer, the first crime, for which the Extenuating circumstances are specified in the clauses 1 and 2 of article 51 of the Penal Code.
Clarifying to the Investigative Officer that he received 10,000 USD from Mr. Nguyen Duc Chung
According to the prosecution, the investigation also found that Mr. Nguyen Duc Chung gave the defendant Dung $ 10,000. This money was passed on by the former president of Hanoi through the defendant Nguyen Hoang Trung to give Dung the Tet the vacation in 2019.
In addition to confessing his own faults, Dung also added that when he broke into an officer’s office in C03 to find the documents of the Nhat Cuong Company case, he found a cardboard box to take and check. Look inside there are 16 phones.
However, so far, the investigating agency has not been able to clarify the nature of the two previous events, so it must be separated to investigate and handle later.
