Demand 500 million VND or else the commune officials' violations will be posted on Facebook
Knowing about the violations of the commune People's Committee officials, Do Minh Tam (born in 1996) repeatedly threatened and demanded that the commune officials transfer money to Tam's account, otherwise he would report the violations.
On September 19, the Criminal Police Department of Phu Tho Province Police announced that it had issued a decision to prosecute the case, prosecute the accused and execute the order to temporarily detain Do Minh Tam (born in 1996), residing in Zone 3, Tan Cuong Commune, Thanh Ba District, for the act ofextortion
During the investigation, the Criminal Police Department of Phu Tho Provincial Police determined: On June 20, 2012, Thanh Ba District People's Committee issued Decision No. 1503/QD-UBND on approving the detailed subdivision planning of rural residential areas to serve the work of land allocation to people in Son Cuong commune.
Taking advantage of this policy, from March 2016 to September 2019, Mr. Truong Duc Hien, Chairman of the People's Committee of An Son Cuong commune, approved Mr. Nguyen Thanh Phu, a land officer; Mr. Do Xuan Huy, a finance officer and Mr. Do Quoc Toan, a treasurer, to illegally collect a total amount of VND 196,794,500 from 5/6 households that were granted land to use as a source of funds for site clearance compensation and land allocation to 6 households before Decision No. 1995/QD-UBND dated August 5, 2019 of the People's Committee of Thanh Ba district on land allocation according to planning, without going through auction in Son Cuong commune.
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| Subject Do Minh Tam. |
Do Minh Tam is the younger brother of Mr. Do Manh Bao's household, one of the 6 households above... In 2016, Mr. Bao paid the money but by 2019 he had not yet been granted land and had gone to work abroad. When discovering that the Son Cuong Commune People's Committee officials had violated the regulations on collecting money exceeding his brother's regulations, on December 18, 2019, Do Minh Tam posted photos and a complaint on Facebook via Tam's "Tam Cam" account, with the purpose of threatening Mr. Huy and the Son Cuong Commune People's Committee officials.
Tam's purpose was that the commune officials had to contact him to resolve the matter and give him money, then Tam would remove the post on Facebook. Due to fear of affecting his reputation and honor in the upcoming Son Cuong Commune Party Congress, term 2020-2025, Mr. Huy was forced to give Tam a total of 122,500,000 VND on many occasions so that Tam could remove the post from Facebook.Facebookand did not report the wrongdoings of Son Cuong Commune People's Committee officials to law enforcement agencies.
On March 6, Tam learned about the land price that households had to pay according to Decision No. 1995/QD-UBND, dated August 5, 2014 of the People's Committee of Thanh Ba District. Specifically, according to regulations, Mr. Bao (Tam's brother) only had to pay more than 73 million VND but had to pay more than 110 million VND.
With the purpose of blackmailing, Tam continued to post the image of the complaint on Facebook and sent a message to Mr. Truong Duc Hien, threatening and demanding that Mr. Hien and 4 officials of the People's Committee of Son Cuong commune, including: Mr. Nguyen Thanh Phu, Mr. Do Xuan Huy, Mr. Do Van Hoa, Vice Chairman of the People's Council of the commune and Ms. Truong Thi Hue, Chairman of the Fatherland Front of Son Cuong commune, must give Tam 500,000,000 VND so that Tam would remove the post on Facebook and would not report the violating content to the authorities if the money was not given.
Tam also threatened that if by March 7, Tam did not receive the money, the victims must give him 1,000,000,000 VND..., otherwise he would file a complaint against the wrongdoings of the Son Cuong Commune People's Committee officials to the Thanh Ba District Police.
The above amount of money was too large for the capacity of the Son Cuong Commune People's Committee officials, so the victim could not meet Tam's request. Tam then sent a complaint about the violations of the Son Cuong Commune People's Committee officials to Thanh Ba District Police. After receiving the information, Thanh Ba District Police recorded the statements of the Son Cuong Commune People's Committee officials...
During the investigation, on June 1, the Thanh Ba District Police Department transferred the case file to the Phu Tho Provincial Police Department for investigation under its authority. During the investigation, the Economic Police Department identified violations in the collection of money and land allocation by a number of officials of the Son Cuong Commune People's Committee and handled them according to the provisions of law. At the same time, the Phu Tho Provincial Police Department and Thanh Ba District Police investigated and clarified Tam's act of extortion.
Based on the collected documents and evidence, the Criminal Police Department of Phu Tho Provincial Police has issued a decision to prosecute the case, prosecute the accused and issue an arrest warrant to detain Do Minh Tam for a period of 3 months for the crime of Extortion.
The case is currently under investigation.
