Company executive accused of abusing freedom, democracy rights
Police of Ho Chi Minh City have finished an investigation into Nguyen Phuong Hang, General Director of the Dai Nam JSC, and three accomplices for the charge of “abusing rights of freedom and democracy to infringe upon interests of the State, rights and legitimate interests of organisations and individuals”.
Nguyen Phuong Hang listens to a police officer reading the investigation and detention decisions in March 2022. (Source: baochinhphu.vn)
HCM City (VNA) – Police ofHo Chi Minh City have finished an investigation into Nguyen Phuong Hang,General Director of the Dai Nam JSC, and three accomplices for the charge of “abusingrights of freedom and democracy to infringe upon interests of the State, rightsand legitimate interests of organisations and individuals”.
The police have proposed the municipalPeople’s Procuracy prosecute the four for the charge under Article 331 of the2015 Penal Code.
According to investigation results,Hang, born in 1971 and residing in District 1 of HCM City, took advantage ofher influence to spread unverified information about other people’s privatelives via social networks.
In about March 2021, via her socialnetwork accounts, Hang organised many livestreams during which she talked aboutsome people’s private lives and used words that were “humiliating and insulting”to their honour and dignity.
She was put into temporary detentionon March 24, 2022.
On November 30, 2022, police launcheda probe into Nguyen Thi Mai Nhi (born in 1983, assistant to Nguyen Phuong Hang),Le Thi Thu Ha (born in 1992, employee of the Dai Nam JSC), and Huynh Cong Tan (bornin 1994, head of the communications division of the Dai Nam JSC), who wereaccused of helping Hang hold the livestreams. They were also banned fromleaving their living places./.
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Nguyen Phuong Hang listens to a police officer reading the investigation and detention decisions in March 2022. (Source: baochinhphu.vn) 
