Fireworks display company director prosecuted for smuggling contraband
Nguyen Thanh Dong - Director of Dong Duong Fireworks Company Limited, specializing in organizing fireworks displays, was prosecuted for investigation of the act of "Trading in prohibited goods" when transporting 27kg of firecrackers of unknown origin.
On the afternoon of January 1, Thai Binh Provincial Police informed that the Provincial Police Investigation Agency had issued a decision to initiate a criminal case and prosecute Nguyen Thanh Dong (born in 1988, residing in Kien Xuong town, Kien Xuong district) to investigate the act of "Trading in prohibited goods".
Defendant Nguyen Thanh Dong is the Director of Dong Duong Fireworks Company Limited, which specializes in organizing fireworks displays.
Previously, at around 1:02 p.m. on December 29, 2024, in the area of Tran Nhan Tong Street in Giang Dong Residential Group (Kien Xuong Town), the working group of the Economic Police Department of Thai Binh Provincial Police discovered and caught Nguyen Thanh Dong red-handed transporting a number of cardboard boxes and a number of hard boxes onto a car with license plate 30G-173.82, showing signs of suspicion of transporting prohibited goods, namely firecrackers.
At the time of inspection, Dong could not present relevant documents proving the origin of the fireworks. The working group drew up a record and seized 27kg of fireworks and many other exhibits.
At the police station, Dong confessed to buying the above fireworks from another person with the purpose of selling them for profit and performing fireworks shows for events.
