Two female officials of the district's Department of Natural Resources and Environment were detained for accepting bribes.

Through initial verification, to quickly process documents in the land sector, two female civil servants of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment of Ia Grai district received from 1 to 2.5 million VND per set of documents from a broker.

On April 11, information from the Investigation Police Agency of Ia Grai District Police, Gia Lai Province said that the unit is temporarily detaining NTBN (born in 1990, residing in Pleiku City, Gia Lai Province) and PTT (born in 1995, residing in Ia Yok Commune, Ia Grai District, both working at the Department of Natural Resources and Environment of Ia Grai District) to investigate and clarify the act of "Receiving bribes".

In addition, the Investigation Agency also detained DQTr. (born in 1992, residing in Ia Kha town, Ia Grai district - freelance worker) to investigate the act of "Bribery brokerage".

According to the initial investigation, the Police Agency determined: From 2021-2023, Tr. worked as a land broker, so he repeatedly gave money to 2 female civil servants of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment of Ia Grai district to quickly process documents in the field of land, each time giving from 1-2.5 million VND/document.

Discussing further about the incident, the Chairman of the People's Committee of Ia Grai district said that the district has directed the suspension of work and not assigned tasks to the two female civil servants mentioned above to serve the investigation.