Arrest of a group of people demanding protection for farmers' harvesters

A group of people used guns to threaten and beat farmers harvesting rice on their own fields, demanding they pay them protection money.

On the morning of June 2, Major Vo Chau Tuan - Deputy Head of Ky Anh District Police, Ha Tinh, said: The investigation agency has just issued a decision to prosecute the case and prosecute 4 suspects for the act of "Extortion of property" according to Article 135 of the Penal Code.

4 subjects were arrested by the investigation agency.

According to the investigation agency's documents, before that, at about 4:30 p.m. on May 30, Pham Quang Minh, 36 years old in Hung Thinh quarter, brought a sports gun with Pham Ngoc Trung, 25 years old in quarter 1, Song Tri ward, Ky Anh town and Nguyen Tien Dung, 25 years old; Ho Cong Huy, 27 years old in Bac Son village, Ky Tho commune, Ky Anh district to the rice fields in Ky Tho and Ky Khang communes with the purpose of threatening and intimidating the owners of rice threshing machines to collect money.

The investigation agency read the search warrant to Pham Quang Minh's house.

Here, Minh told Trung and Dung to stop the harvesters that were operating in Hoang Du village, Ky Khang commune. According to Minh, Trung and Dung immediately went to Ruong Nay area in Hoang Du village, Ky Khang commune, Ky Anh district to threaten and demand that Mr. Mai Van Duc, 39 years old, living in Quang Ich village, Ky Khang commune, stop the rice harvester. If he wanted to continue harvesting, he had to give Minh's group 1 million VND.

Finding it unreasonable, some people protested, including Mr. Nguyen Minh Chau, 43 years old, residing in Hoang Du village, Ky Khang commune, who was the most vehement protester.

The thug Trung got angry and used the hoe to hit Chau straight on the body, injuring his right arm. Meanwhile, Minh was holding a gun in his hand with an angry face, so Mai Van Duc had to swallow his pride and give Minh money to continue harvesting rice.

Investigators seized Minh's sports gun hidden under the chicken coop.

With the collected documents and evidence, the Investigation Police Department of Ky Anh District Police has decided to prosecute the case and prosecute Pham Quang Minh; Pham Ngoc Trung; Nguyen Tien Dung and Ho Cong Huy for the crime of "Extortion of property" under Article 135 of the Penal Code. Complete the file to handle the subject according to the provisions of law.

To completely resolve the situation of "protecting harvesters" in Ky Anh in particular and the whole province in general, we think that when people and harvester owners encounter similar phenomena as above, they need to immediately report and coordinate with the police force to promptly investigate, arrest and strictly handle.

According to CAND