On April 25, the People’s Court of Ba Ria – Vung Tau province conducted a first instance trial and sentenced defendant Nguyen Duc Hieu (57 years old, former Head of the Provincial Inspection Department) to 15 months in prison for the crime of “Lack of responsibility causing consequences.” serious”.
Previously, in October 2022, the People’s Court of Ba Ria – Vung Tau province conducted a first instance trial and sentenced Nguyen Van Dong to 12 years in prison for fraudulent appropriation of property; Nguyen Le Khanh Duy was sentenced to 1 year in prison for irresponsibility causing serious consequences.
The case was heard on appeal in January 2024, the High People’s Court in Ho Chi Minh City rejected Nguyen Van Dong’s appeal, upholding the first instance verdict on the term prison sentence; Accepted the appeal of defendant Nguyen Le Khanh Duy to change from 1 year in prison to 1 year in prison but with a suspended sentence, probation period of 24 months.
The case was heard in first instance on the morning of April 25
As for Nguyen Duc Hieu, he was prosecuted in January 2021, but in May 2022, the Bien Hoa Central Institute of Forensic Psychiatry concluded that at the time of the crime, Mr. Hieu “had limited ability to perceive and control behavior.” At the end of May 2022, the People’s Procuracy of Ba Ria – Vung Tau province issued a decision to apply mandatory medical treatment for Mr. Hieu.
In June 2022, the Police Department decided to separate Hieu’s behavior into another case to handle later.
According to the indictment, in 2010, Mr. Nguyen Van Dong (born in 1956, residing in Vung Tau City) was paid compensation by the People’s Committee of Vung Tau City and granted a resettlement land plot with a total value of nearly 3.5 billion VND.
However, the authorities later discovered that Mr. Dong had fraudulently created and provided false documents and papers about the origin of the land, time and duration of residence in order to receive compensation for his use rights from the State. land and resettlement land.
Nguyen Duc Hieu is currently the Head of Professional Department 3 of the Provincial Inspectorate, and Nguyen Le Khanh Duy (expert) is assigned to inspect, verify, verify and advise the Provincial Chief Inspector to report and propose to the Chairman. The Provincial People’s Committee resolved the second complaint about recognition and compensation of land use rights value when recovering Nguyen Van Dong’s land.
In the process of performing their tasks, Hieu and Duy only relied on the records provided by Nguyen Van Dong without requiring the organization to provide information or documents related to the complaint content. This led to the verification result without information. The Chairman of the People’s Committee of Vung Tau City issued a document temporarily suspending the implementation of the decision to resolve the first complaint for Mr. Dong… This led to the Chairman of the Provincial People’s Committee having The document maintains the resolution of Vung Tau City’s first complaint with Mr. Dong.
On that basis, Vung Tau City illegally compensated and granted resettlement land to Mr. Nguyen Van Dong, resulting in Mr. Dong appropriating more than 3.4 billion VND.
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