Disguised as a businessman, he traveled with the National Assembly Chairman to escape to Korea.
9 people in Le Thi Lieu's human trafficking ring to South Korea disguised themselves as directors and deputy directors to go to South Korea for exchanges in order to stay illegally.
On May 6, Hanoi People's Court will try the case.Organizing for others to flee abroadwith 8 defendants. Including Le Thi Lieu (Director of GVA Joint Stock Company), Tran Thi Tuyet (former staff of the Economic and Forecast Magazine of the Ministry of Planning and Investment).
The incident occurred in December 2018, when a delegation of the Vietnamese National Assembly, led by National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, visited and worked in South Korea at the invitation of South Korean National Assembly Speaker Moon Hee-sang.
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| MBC news reported that 9 people escaped and stayed in Korea. |
The indictment determined that in early 2018, Lieu talked online with an acquaintance named Hoang Anh (35 years old, then residing in Germany). This person said that many of his fellow countrymen in Nghe An wanted to go to Korea to work.
Lieu agreed to process visas for these people to leave the country for $10,000 per case. The two sides agreed that Hoang Anh's uncle, Trinh Dung (from Nghe An), would take the workers to meet Lieu.
In February 2018, Dung invited Ngo Xuan Hieu, Le Thi Xuan (Hieu's wife) and Nguyen Thi Luong to join the mission of smuggling people who wanted to leave the country to South Korea. They agreed to collect 11,500 USD/case.
From March to May 2018, Trinh Bang Dung's group collected deposits from 4 workers and then took them to meet Lieu in Hanoi. To facilitate the visa application to Korea, Lieu asked Dung's group to organize tours for these workers to some Southeast Asian countries.
After that, Lieu used the legal entities of some of her relatives' companies and bought the companies and put these workers in the names of leaders and employees. In September 2018, Lieu made documents for her and the workers to join the business delegation to Korea.
In early December 2018, those who left the country paid more than 42,000 USD to Dung’s group. Lieu alone received 30,000 USD. This woman paid nearly 140 million VND to Vietravel Company to pay for the service.
On December 4, 2018, Lieu and a group of workers boarded a private plane with a business delegation to Korea. Lieu registered as the Director of GVA Company. The remaining people were named as directors, deputy directors or assistant directors of the company that Lieu bought.
To conceal his actions, Lieu instructed four workers to dress politely and memorize information about the companies they represented as leaders.
When Liu arrived in Korea, he made up an excuse to meet a business partner or go shopping to get his passport back, then separated from the group and escaped back to Korea.
After that, 4 people escaped back to this country under Lieu's instructions. In addition, the People's Procuracy determined that Tran Thi Tuyet profited 48 million VND when she organized for 2 other people to go with the business delegation and then escape back to Korea.
Through investigation, the authorities determined that 9 people in the business group fled to Korea, but the police only clarified that 6 people were organized and brokered by Lieu and his accomplices. Currently, 4 people have been deported to Vietnam, 2 people are still hiding in this country.
Regarding the Ministry of Planning and Investment, the Foreign Investment Agency, the Northern Investment Promotion Center and Vietravel, the Procuracy found that these units were assigned by the National Assembly Office to preside over and coordinate the organization of a business delegation to accompany the National Assembly Chairman to South Korea. While performing their duties, the organizing committee did not know that the defendants were taking advantage of the escort plan to organize workers to flee back to this country./.
