Defendants in Nhat Cuong Company smuggling case jailed
The Hanoi People’s Court on May 10 handed down sentences to 14 defendants in a case related to smuggling and violations of accounting regulations at the Nhat Cuong Technic Co Ltd.
Hanoi (VNA) - The Hanoi People’s Court on May10 handed down sentences to 14 defendants in a case related to smuggling andviolations of accounting regulations at the Nhat Cuong Technic Co Ltd.
Nguyen Bao Ngoc, the company’s finance director, receiveda sentence of 10 years in prison for “smuggling” and another four years for “violatingaccounting regulations, causing serious consequences.”
Nguyen Thi Bich Hang, chief accountant, was sentenced tothree and a half years behind bars for “violating accounting regulations,causing serious consequences.”
The remainder faced the charge of “smuggling” andreceived prison terms ranging from four to 13 years. Tran Ngoc Anh, deputygeneral director of the company, was sentenced to 13 years.
The judge also decided to give 774 million VND (33,560USD) collected during raids at the company and money in seven banking accounts belongingto Doan Manh Phong, one of the suspects in the case, to the public fund, andasked the defendants charged with “smuggling” to return more than 221 millionVND they had taken illegally.
Phong and other suspects in the case - Bui Quang Huy(General Director), Ngo Xuan Su, Do Van Hung, Cao Tuan Hung, Nguyen Hoang Son,and Le Xuan Dung - are on the run and have been put on the wanted list.
Regarding the charge of smuggling, the indictment saidthat from January 2014 to May 2019, Bui Quang Huy personally directed thecompany’s staff to conduct 2,502 illegal transactions involving the purchaseand sale of more than 255,000 mobile phones and electronic equipment worth over2.92 trillion VND (126.7 million USD) in total with 16 suppliers in Hong Kong(China).
Huy then engaged smuggling rings to transport the goodsfrom Hong Kong (China) to Vietnam and hand them over to the Nhat Cuong Company tosell, with a total of 52,811 products sold for total of 307 billion VND.
As for the violations of accounting regulations, causingserious consequences, the indictment said that in 2014, Huy instructed the company’semployees to set up two different accounting systems, one for internal use andanother fake one for public reporting.
The procuracy said that this is banned under Article13 of the law on accounting, which caused a loss of nearly 30 billion VND intax revenue to the State./.
The Investigation Police Agency under the Ministry of Public Security has proposed prosecuting 15 people involved in the Nhat Cuong Technic Co Ltd case for smuggling and violating accounting regulations, causing serious consequences.
The People’s Court of Hanoi on May 5 opened a first-instance trial of a case related to smuggling and violations of accounting regulations which occurred at the Nhat Cuong Technic Co Ltd.
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At the court (Photo: VNA) 
