Appeal to annul the first instance judgment in the VN Pharma case

Mr. Nguyen Dinh Trung - Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Procuracy 3, said that on the afternoon of September 22, the court issued a decision to appeal the first instance verdict of Nguyen Minh Hung and his accomplices in the "smuggling" case previously tried by the Ho Chi Minh City People's Court.

Mr. Trung said that the decision to appeal the verdict requested the High People's Court in Ho Chi Minh City to review the appeal in the direction of annulling the first instance verdict because there are still many issues that have not been investigated and clarified, and need to be reinvestigated to avoid people and crimes being missed.

As reported, after the Ho Chi Minh City People's Court tried Nguyen Minh Hung (former general director of VN Pharma) and his accomplices for smuggling in the case of importing fake H-Capita cancer drugs, public opinion raised many questions about unclear details in the case.

That is the issue of the responsibility of the Drug Administration (Ministry of Health) in licensing the import of the drug batch, the commission of more than 7.5 billion VND that VN Pharma paid, and especially the issue of determining the crime of defendant Hung and his accomplices as smuggling or trading in counterfeit medicine.

The Ho Chi Minh City People's Court has sentenced the defendants for smuggling as follows:

- Nguyen Minh Hung - former Chairman of the Board of Directors and General Director of VN Pharma Joint Stock Company: 12 years in prison (this is the lowest sentence in the penalty range that Hung was tried for)

- Vo Manh Cuong - Director of H&C International Maritime Trading Company Limited: 12 years in prison

- Nguyen Tri Nhat - former deputy general director of VN Pharma: 5 years in prison

- Ngo Anh Quoc - former deputy general director of VN Pharma: 4 years in prison

- Phan Cam Loan - former deputy head of VN Pharma's import-export department: 3 years and 6 months in prison

- Le Thi Vu Phuong - former chief accountant of VN Pharma: 3 years in prison

Crime of forging seals and documents of agencies and organizations:

- Pham Anh Kiet - General Director of Sapharco Pharmaceutical Company: 2 years in prison (suspended sentence)

- Bui Ngoc Duy - former head of VN Pharma's research and development department: 1 year and 6 months in prison

- Hoang Van Thong - pharmacist: 2 years in prison (suspended sentence)

According to Tuoi Tre