Prosecution and temporary detention of former commune land officer who embezzled over 3.1 billion VND
Phan Ngoc Phuong was prosecuted and temporarily detained for the acts of "Abusing position and power while performing official duties" and "Fraudulent appropriation of property".
On the afternoon of September 21, the Investigation Police Agency of An Giang Province Police announced that it had just issued a decision to prosecute the case, prosecute the accused and issue an order to temporarily detain Phan Ngoc Phuong, (born in 1970), residing in Binh Hung 1 Hamlet, Binh My Commune, Chau Phu District, An Giang for the acts of "Taking advantage of position and power while performing official duties" and "Fraudulent appropriation of property".
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| Subject Phuong at the investigation agency. |
According to the investigation results, Phan Ngoc Phuong was a land official in Binh Thuy commune, Chau Phu district, An Giang province, from October 1998 to 2014.taking advantage of assigned functions and tasksIn the procedures for granting new, exchanging, transferring, and donating land use right certificates, Phuong completed the procedures for granting 17 land use right certificates that were not under his management and use (granting fake certificates) to Phuong and his family members.
Then, Phuong used these land use right certificates to fraudulently mortgage loans from banks and credit funds and carry out procedures to transfer land use rights to 3 people to appropriate over 3.1 billion VND.
In addition, Phuong also accepted to carry out procedures to transfer land use rights to people, but did not carry out the transfer procedures but carried out procedures to issue new and change land plots with incorrect numbers and then appropriated the transfer tax amount.
On June 12, 2020, the case was handed over to the Investigation Police Agency of An Giang Provincial Police for further investigation and handling according to authority.
