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The results of the trial of 4 defendants in the case of seizure of secret state documents in Hanoi, announced by the Hanoi People’s Court this afternoon, December 11, showed that 2/4 defendants received the sentence below the lower parenthesis of penalty range.
Consequently, the defendant Nguyen Duc Chung was sentenced to 5 years’ imprisonment for appropriating secret State documents in accordance with article 337 of the Penal Code. The Panel sentenced the defendant Pham Quang Dung (37 years old, former police officer), 4 years and 6 months in prison, Nguyen Hoang Trung (37 years old, former expert from the Editorial Secretariat, Hanoi People’s Committee Office) 24 months Prison and Nguyen Anh Ngoc (46 years old, former Deputy Head of the Editorial Secretariat, Hanoi People’s Committee Office) 18 months in prison, for the same charge of appropriation of State secret documents, as defined in article 337 of the Law of Figures the.
Defendant Nguyen Duc Chung has 4 extenuating circumstances
Exchange with Youth On the afternoon of December 11, lawyer Giang Hong Thanh, one of the 7 lawyers who participated in the defense of the accused, said that in making the above decisions, the Panel relied on Clause 1, Article 54 of the Penal Code : “The Court a sentence may determine a penalty below the lowest level of the applicable penalty framework but within the following lighter framework of the law when the offender has at least 2 extenuating circumstances specified in clause 1 of article 51 of this code ”.
“In this case, the defendants have 2 or more extenuating circumstances, including 4 extenuating circumstances such as the defendant Nguyen Duc Chung,” said lawyer Giang Hong Thanh.
According to lawyer Giang Hong Thanh, in the trial this morning, the four defendants pleaded guilty, gave sincere testimony and expressed their regret, no one objected to the opinions of the representative of the Prosecutor’s Office.
In this trial, all the accused expressed their regret and apologized to the Party, the State and the people. In which the defendant Nguyen Duc Chung apologizes to voters for betraying their trust.
According to the indictment, the accused Nguyen Duc Chung and his wife, Ms. Nguyen Thi Truc Chi Hoa, are persons with rights and obligations related to the smuggling case; infringe accounting regulations, causing serious consequences; money laundering; Tender rules were violated at Nhat Cuong Trading and Service Co., Ltd. and a number of related units (also known as the Nhat Cuong project), leading to serious consequences.
This is the case under the supervision of the Central Steering Committee for the fight against corruption. This case is in charge of the Investigative Police of the Ministry of Public Security (C03). To obtain information on the Japanese crime, the defendant Nguyen Duc Chung contacted and asked Pham Quang Dung, an officer from C03, to provide information and documents to investigate the case.
From July 2019 – 6.2020, the defendant Pham Quang Dung, on 5 occasions, seized 9 investigation documents with the level of “confidential” and transferred to Mr. Nguyen Duc Chung 2 times, including 6 documents on the list of Chamber secrets. water “honey”.
Defendants Nguyen Hoang Trung and Nguyen Anh Ngoc participated once to print and edit 3 “confidential” documents for Mr. Nguyen Duc Chung.
In this case, the Supreme People’s Court determined that the defendant Nguyen Duc Chung had a mastermind role, Pham Quang Dung as a practitioner.
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