Prosecution of 5 tax officials and land registration office

On the afternoon of February 4, the Investigation Police Agency of Binh Thuan Public Security issued a decision to prosecute the accused, and at the same time applied preventive measures such as prohibiting them from leaving their place of residence and temporarily suspending their exit from the country to Mr. Bach Dan Vinh (Deputy Director of Phan Thiet City Tax Department); Mr. Do Le (civil servant of Phan Thiet City Tax Department); Mr. Nguyen Ho Luan, Ms. Ta Thi Thanh Huyen, Ms. Le Thi Thanh Hanh (raising a young child), all employees of the Phan Thiet Land Registration Office Branch for the crime of "Lack of responsibility causes serious consequences" prescribed in Article 360 ​​of the 2015 Penal Code.

Binh Thuan Police Investigation Agency read the decision to serve and prosecute Mr. Bac Dan Vinh (standing), Deputy Head of Phan Thiet Tax Department.

The investigation process showed that Mr. Bach Dan Vinh was assigned to be in charge of the Land Use and Other Collection Team; monitor the determination of financial obligations for land use conversion records; directly sign the Notice of payment of land use fees and land use registration fees.

However, from August 2016 to August 2018, Mr. Vinh failed to check and control the records requested by the Land Use and Other Collection Team, so he signed the Notice of payment of land use fees and registration fees for 42 records (land plots), leading to the consequence of calculating land use fees and registration fees, causing a loss to the State budget of nearly 3.5 billion VND.

The defendants were prosecuted for the crime of "irresponsibility causing serious consequences".

Mr. Do Le was assigned to directly handle the records to determine the financial obligations for households and individuals whose land use purposes were changed. Mr. Le himself misidentified the agricultural land information of 7 records (land plots) leading to the consequences of calculating land use fees and registration fees, causing a loss to the State budget of over 310 million VND.

For 3 employees of the Phan Thiet Land Registration Office Branch, Ta Thi Thanh Huyen, Le Thi Thanh Hanh, and Nguyen Ho Luan, they were irresponsible in advising on determining the area, location, and making a form to transfer cadastral information of land plots with changed purposes in Phong Nam, Tien Loi, and Thien Nghiep communes, causing a loss to the State budget of over 2 billion VND.

Regarding the case, on January 7, the Investigation Police Agency of Binh Thuan Province Police issued a decision to prosecute the case, prosecute the accused, and execute an order to temporarily detain 5 Phan Thiet City officials related to land violations.

The officials and defendants who were prosecuted and temporarily detained include: Nguyen Huu Hoanh (former Deputy Director of the Phan Thiet City Land Registration Office Branch); Tran Van Dong (Captain of the Land Registration and Other Revenue Team of the Phan Thiet City Tax Department); Nguyen Ngoc Quang (former Deputy Captain of the Land Registration and Other Revenue Team of the Phan Thiet City Tax Department); Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Hai (former Director of the Phan Thiet City Land Registration Office Branch) and Ms. Nguyen Thi Hoang Oanh (officer of the Phan Thiet City Land Registration Office Branch).

The two defendants Hai and Oanh were subject to preventive measures including being banned from leaving their place of residence and being temporarily suspended from leaving the country.