Additional charges of 'embezzlement' against Ha Van Tham

The Ministry of Public Security's Investigation Police Agency (C46) is conducting additional investigations into the case of Ha Van Tham and his accomplices that occurred at Ocean Commercial Joint Stock Bank (OceanBank) and related units.

Implementing the direction of the Central Steering Committee on anti-corruption and based on the results of the investigation of the case, on May 19, the Investigation Police Agency of the Ministry of Public Security issued the following decisions:

- Decision to supplement the prosecution of the case of "Embezzlement of property" under Article 278 of the Penal Code and Decisions to supplement the Decision to prosecute the accused Nguyen Xuan Son and Ha Van Tham for the crime of "Embezzlement of property", the amount of VND 49,320,796,000 of the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PVN).

Ha Van Tham.

- Decisions to change the Decision to prosecute the accused from the crime of "Abusing position and power while performing official duties" under Article 281 of the Penal Code to the crime of "Abusing position and power to appropriate property" under Article 280 of the Penal Code against Nguyen Xuan Son, Ha Van Tham, Nguyen Minh Thu and Pham Hoang Giang; Decision to prosecute the accused Hoang Thi Hong Tu for the crime of "Abusing position and power to appropriate property" under Article 280 of the Penal Code.

- Decision to prosecute the accused Pham Cong Danh, Tran Van Binh and Hua Thi Phan for the crime of "Violating regulations on lending in the activities of credit institutions" under Article 179 of the Penal Code.

Currently, the Ministry of Public Security's Investigation Police Agency is concentrating its forces, urgently consolidating documents and evidence, completing files, concluding additional investigations, transferring files to propose prosecution of the accused within the investigation deadline, serving the requirements of prosecution and trial.

Previously, Ha Van Tham and his accomplices were brought to trial in February 2017.

The Ha Van Tham case is one of six major corruption and economic cases that the Standing Committee of the Central Steering Committee on Anti-Corruption has agreed to bring to trial.

However, at the public trial of Ha Van Tham and his accomplices, the Hanoi People's Court returned the case file for further investigation due to some unclear issues.

After a period of investigation, C46 issued additional prosecution decisions as above.

According to Tuoi Tre