Prosecution and temporary detention of the subject who directed the release of fake 'hot' clips at Sunny bar

Colonel Dinh Ngoc Khoa - Director of Vinh Phuc Provincial Police said that the Investigation Police Agency of Vinh Phuc Provincial Police has decided to prosecute and issue an order to temporarily detain Ngo Van Thang (born in 1992, residing in Xuan La ward, Tay Ho, Hanoi) for the act of "directing accomplices to use the internet to spreadobscene literatureon cyberspace”. Thang is the mastermind behind the spreading of fake clips of "chaos at Sunny bar" in Phuc Yen city.

During the investigation, Vinh Phuc Provincial Police determined that in 2014, Thang established PPO Vietnam Co., Ltd., headquartered on Hoang Quoc Viet Street (Nghia Do Ward, Cau Giay District) with the business lines of consulting on website design and construction solutions, implementing Internet marketing solutions...

Subject Ngo Van Thang received an arrest warrant from the Investigation Police Agency of Vinh Phuc Province Police. Photo: Provided by the Police

In September 2020, Thang was hired to create and manage 3 websites: livebong.net; tinbong.vn and vaobong.tv with the purpose of providing information, news, football betting content, match schedules, football results, rankings of European, world and Vietnamese football tournaments...

In early May 2021, Phung Minh Tuan (born in 1993), Do Thanh Dat (born in 1994), Dang Quoc Binh (all residing in Bac Tu Liem district, Hanoi) were Thang's employees who learned about the Covid-19 outbreak in Vinh Phuc related to Sunny bar - karaoke. At this time, Thang searched for obscene, offensive videos, attached them to this bar, then posted them on the website vaobongtv.com and disseminated them to all employees in the company, and shared them on social networks.

Immediately after posting the clips attracted 300,000 views and shares. Wanting to increase traffic to other websites, on the morning of May 11, Tuan and Thang discussed and then deleted the video clip on the website livebong.live and inserted a link to the website vaobongty.com to attract traffic to this website.

Based on collected documents, on May 18, the Investigation Police Agency of Vinh Phuc Province issued a decision to prosecute and arrest Ngo Van Thang and Le Anh Tuan.

Previously, on May 16, the Investigation Police Agency of Vinh Phuc Province initiated a case and prosecuted Phung Minh Tuan (born in 1993), Do Thanh Dat (born in 1994) and Dang Quoc Binh, all residing in Bac Tu Liem District, Hanoi, for the crime of "Disseminating obscene cultural products".

Currently, the Investigation Police Agency of Vinh Phuc Province is continuing to investigate and verify related subjects for handling according to regulations./.