Multiple sentences for former police officer who planted a mine at the provincial police chief's house

While the mine explosion at the Thai Nguyen province police chief's house had not been discovered, Hoa was still working and receiving bribes from the drug lord...

Documents show that Nguyen Viet Hoa worked for many years at the Criminal Police Department of Thai Nguyen province. He was then transferred to the Wanted Police Department of this province. Angry because he thought he was being "squeezed like a lemon and thrown away", on January 7, 2012, Hoa directed Dong Van Bich to plant a mine at the door of the provincial police director's house. The explosion caused severe damage to the front of the house.

While this case was being investigated, Hoa was still working at the provincial wanted department. In early 2012, Hoa and Nguyen Duc Chinh were assigned to capture Tran Van Hung (Thai Nguyen), who was wanted for murder, illegal possession of military weapons, and illegal drug trafficking. Upon receiving news that Hung was hiding in Ninh Binh province, Hoa contacted colleagues at the Ninh Binh provincial police.

On March 19, 2012, Hoa's task force discovered Hung at Dinh Thi Thanh Loan's house, so they ambushed and arrested the suspect. Searching Hung's person and vehicle, Hoa confiscated a briefcase containing 2.5 billion VND.

At this time, Hung proposed to give Hoa all the money if he let Hung go. But Hoa said that because he had reported the incident to the leaders, he could not let him go and could only arrange for Hung to surrender and change the location of arrest so as not to affect Loan.

To reach an agreement, Hung gave Hoa 2 billion VND and gave Loan 500 million VND. Hung was then taken to Thanh Binh Ward Police Station (Ninh Binh City) to make a record of his arrest at the foot of Thanh Binh overpass. Hoa divided 250 million VND to her colleague and kept the remaining amount of Hung's money.

In late 2013, the police identified the suspect who planted a bomb in the house of Thai Nguyen Province Police Director Nguyen Nhu Tuan. At the same time, Hoa was arrested in the case of receiving nearly 2 billion VND from drug lord Tran Van Hung.

After the first phase of the Tran Van Hung case was completed, in mid-March 2015, Hoa and several accomplices were brought to trial by the Ninh Binh Provincial People's Court for the crimes of Abuse of power and authority to appropriate property and Slander. This former police officer received a total of 22 years in prison.

Nearly a year after receiving the above sentence, on February 25-26, 2016, Hoa was tried by the Thai Nguyen Provincial People's Court along with his accomplice Dong Van Bich on charges of Murder, Illegal Use of Explosives and Property Destruction. Hoa was sentenced to life imprisonment for these two charges.

Hoa and Bich claimed their innocence, saying the indictment was completely slanderous. The two defendants appealed to the High People’s Court in Hanoi to review the entire case. The appeal hearing is scheduled to hear Hoa and Bich’s appeal on June 15./.

According to VNE