Deputy Director sentenced to prison for accepting bribes and creating fake documents for vehicle conversion
(Baonghean.vn) - On the morning of January 11, the People's Court of Nghe An province opened the first instance trial of defendant Nguyen Xuan Hoa (born 1991), residing in Hung Phuc commune, Hung Nguyen district, for the crime of "receiving bribes" and Le Nhu Manh (born 1991), residing in Ky Son commune, Tan Ky district, for the crime of "giving bribes".
According to the indictment, in 2017, Nguyen Xuan Hoa was appointed Deputy Director of the Road Traffic Design and Consulting Joint Stock Company. Hoa was assigned to be in charge of all work related to consulting, designing, and renovating road vehicles.
However, Nguyen Xuan Hoa took advantage of his position and authority to illegally receive money from vehicle owners to legalize documents for modified vehicles, not following the correct procedures of the State to help the vehicles have enough documents to circulate on the road.
Specifically, in April 2023, Le Nhu Manh bought a used Thaco Ollin car, which was newly registered and changed the license plate to 37C-42133.
Due to personal needs, Manh bought a crane himself and went to a mechanic shop near his house to cut the box and convert it into a truck with a crane. Le Nhu Manh knew that he had to prepare a conversion dossier according to regulations before being able to move it, so he contacted Nguyen Xuan Hoa to discuss the matter of making a dossier to legalize Manh's previous conversion.
Nguyen Xuan Hoa explained to Manh the procedures and documents for renovation in accordance with regulations, including the requirement to have a design document approved by the Department of Transport and granted a certificate before renovation can be carried out.
However, Hoa still agreed to do the renovation documents for Manh for 13.1 million VND and required a deposit of 5 million VND. Based on the documents that Manh sent, Hoa remade a set of design documents and submitted them to the Department of Transport for appraisal. After being appraised, Hoa continued to make fake factory acceptance records for the renovated motor vehicle.
When the documents were complete, Hoa and Manh took the car to Nghe An Motor Vehicle Inspection Center (3701S) to do it.vehicle registration proceduresBut because the car had some errors and did not comply with regulations, Hoa gave money to 2 officers at the Center to ignore the violations and at the same time to let Le Nhu Manh's car be granted a certificate.
When all the documents were issued, Nguyen Xuan Hoa and Manh went to the Traffic Police Department to complete the procedures to apply for a new registration. When the work was completed, Le Nhu Manh transferred the remaining amount to Hoa. After paying for some other procedures, the remaining amount was more than 7.3 million VND, which Hoa kept for personal expenses.
At the trial, the two defendants Hoa and Manh both confessed and admitted their actions. According to the case file, the actions of the two inspection officers who received money from Nguyen Xuan Hoa to ignore the inspection errors were included in another case by the Investigation Agency and therefore were not considered at this trial.
At the end of the trial, the Court of First Instance sentenced defendant Nguyen Xuan Hoa to 7 months in prison for "Receiving bribes" and defendant Le Nhu Manh to 12 months of non-custodial reform for "Giving bribes".
