Commune land officer arrested for receiving 100 million in 'bribes' when issuing red books

News from the Hoang Mai Town Police, Nghe An Province said: The unit has just initiated a case to prosecute the accused Le Hoang Vinh Thang (born in 1986), residing in Son Long village, Quynh Lap commune, Hoang Mai town, formerly a land official of Quynh Thien ward, Hoang Mai town to continue to investigate and expand the behavior.“Abuse of position and power to appropriate property”.

Previously, from the work of grasping the local situation, Hoang Mai Town Police discovered that many people had the need to do procedures related to land. However, because many people did not know or could not do the procedures, they often asked or hired others to do it for them, leading to the appearance of a number of subjects who received money to "run" to do documents and procedures related to land for others. In that situation, under the direction of the Provincial Police leaders, Hoang Mai Town Police established a special project to fight.

Defendant Le Hoang Vinh Thang at the Investigation Agency. Photo: Thuy An.

After a period of monitoring, the Investigation Committee discovered that Le Hoang Vinh Thang (born in 1986), residing in Son Long village, Quynh Lap commune, Hoang Mai town, a land official of Quynh Thien ward, Hoang Mai town, had signs of abusing his position and power to appropriate property.

While the Task Force was monitoring the movement of the subject, it received a report from Ms. NTL (born in 1968), residing in Quynh Thien ward, Hoang Mai town, accusing her of: During the process of converting the purpose of using garden land into residential land and issuing a Certificate of Land Use Rights, she was embezzled VND 100,000,000 by Le Hoang Vinh Thang, who was working as a cadastral officer in Quynh Thien ward, Hoang Mai town. Along with the collected documents and evidence, under the direct direction of Hoang Mai town police, the Task Force arrested Le Hoang Vinh Thang.

During the investigation, the subject initially evaded and denied the crime. However, through professional measures and collected evidence, Thang admitted his crime.

In the investigation to expand the case, the Investigation Police Agency of Hoang Mai Town also clarified: In addition to abusing his power and position to appropriate Ms. NTL's property, Thang also received from Ms. TTT (born in 1950), residing in Quynh Thien Ward, Hoang Mai Town, the amount of 42,700,000 VND to carry out procedures to issue a Land Use Rights Certificate to Ms. T., but Thang did not do it and also lost Ms. T.'s original documents and appropriated the above amount of money.

Based on collected documents and evidence, the Investigation Police Agency of Hoang Mai Town has initiated a criminal case, prosecuted the accused and issued an order to detain Le Hoang Vinh Thang to continue investigating and expanding the case.