Former Chief Accountant of the Enforcement Department embezzled 860 million VND
As the chief accountant of an Enforcement Agency, due to needing money to spend, Thanh lied to many people that he was capable of applying for jobs and civil servants to appropriate 860 million VND from many people.
Phung Thi Thanh (born in 1981, residing in Le Loi ward, Son Tay town, Hanoi) was admitted to the Party and appointed as Chief Accountant of the Civil Judgment Enforcement Office of Son Tay town. During her time working at this agency, due to needing money for living expenses, Thanh lied to many people that she was able to find jobs and civil servants for those in need in order to embezzle 860 million VND.
On March 20, the Hanoi People's Court opened a first-instance criminal trial of defendant Thanh, who was prosecuted for fraud and property appropriation. The victim in the case is an acquaintance of the defendant.
According to the indictment of the Hanoi People's Procuracy, Mr. Nguyen Duy (in Ba Vi district, Hanoi) wanted to apply for his son to work at a state agency. Through an acquaintance's introduction, in June 2013, Mr. Duy met Thanh and asked to apply for his son to work as a civil servant in Son Tay town.
After promising to do this, but two months later, Thanh told Mr. Duy that there were no quotas in Son Tay town so he would apply for his son to work as an accountant at a drug rehabilitation center of the Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs of Hanoi. Thanh then asked Mr. Duy to give him 250 million VND to take care of the matter.
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| Defendant Thanh at trial. |
Wishing for their son to be placed on the state payroll, Mr. Duy’s family gave Thanh the required amount of money. Nearly a year later, because they could not fulfill their promise to find a job for Mr. Duy’s son and had spent all the money they had received, Thanh asked Mr. Duy’s family to cancel the previous job application receipt and replace it with a new receipt with the content of a debt of 250 million VND along with the promise that “we will find a job but we have to wait”.
However, after many promises of a time to work, Mr. Duy's son was still not accepted to work, so in January 2015, Mr. Duy's family filed a complaint against Thanh for fraudulently appropriating money.
Using the same method, from 2013 to 2014, Thanh also provided other false information to appropriate more than 600 million VND from 4 other victims. However, Thanh could not find a job for anyone and did not return the money he had received to them.
The investigation agency determined that, by providing false information such as having many relationships with people in positions of power, Thanh tricked 5 victims into applying for jobs in state agencies to appropriate a total of 860 million VND from them.
At the trial, the defendant Thanh admitted to the above crimes. The trial panel determined that the defendant Thanh's actions were very dangerous to society when he provided false information to appropriate large sums of money from many victims.
The defendant's actions have caused discredit to State agencies in recruiting personnel for work, affecting people's trust in the proper operation of State agencies' personnel work. Therefore, it is necessary to apply strict punishment to the defendant for education, deterrence and general prevention in society.
With the above verdict, the Trial Panel sentenced the defendant Thanh to 8 years in prison for fraud and property appropriation. In addition to the prison sentence, the defendant Thanh must also serve a civil penalty of compensating the amount of money he has appropriated to the victims according to the provisions of law.
