Invested in illegal gold mining, police boss's wife gets 30 months in prison

(Baonghean.vn) - Thuong invested more than 700 million VND for Vui to organize illegal gold mining, causing 4 deaths. Thuong went to jail, and her husband was dismissed and transferred to another job.

On November 18, the People's Court of Quang Nam province tried the case of "Violating regulations on exploration and exploitation of natural resources" and "Illegal manufacture, storage, transportation, use, purchase, sale or use of explosives".

According to the indictment, in early 2016, Van Hoai Thuong (26 years old, residing in Thanh My town, Nam Giang, Quang Nam) invested more than 700 million VND for Nguyen Kim Vui (28 years old, residing in the same area) to organize illegal gold mining in the Cho Val area, about 2km from Thanh My town.

Vui called 6 people of the Khmu and Mong ethnic groups in Ky Son district, Nghe An to work for him with a salary of 4 million VND/month. Among them, there are 3 brothers: Cut Van Son (34 years old), Cut Phong Pheng (33 years old) and Cut Van Ngo (29 years old). There are also Cut Van Hoanh (29 years old), Cut Van Binh (18 years old) and Va Ba Nhia (25 years old).

defendants at trial

On April 12, all the workers and Vui drilled holes and stuffed 6 mines into a 9m deep tunnel to blast rocks. When the mines exploded, Son fell into the tunnel. Then Vui, Pheng, Ngoc, and Binh used ropes to go down the tunnel to rescue him. Hoanh and Nhia tried to go down but had difficulty breathing so they called for help. As a result, Vui and Son's three siblings died of suffocation, while Binh was saved.

At the scene, investigators discovered and seized 1 package of electric detonators, 9 homemade mines and two unused packages of explosives.

Quang Nam Provincial People's Court sentenced defendant Van Thi Hoai Thuong to 24 months in prison for "Violating regulations on natural resource exploration and exploitation" and 6 months in prison for "Illegal manufacture, storage, transportation, use, purchase, sale or use of explosives".

The defendants Cut Van Hoanh (born in 1987, residing in Bao Thang commune, Ky Son district, Nghe An province), and Ba Nhia (born in 1984, residing in Muong Long commune, Ky Son district) were both sentenced to 9 months in prison for the crime of "Violating regulations on exploration and exploitation of natural resources", and were also prosecuted for the above crime. Cut Van Binh (born in 1998, Hoanh's younger brother) was sentenced to 7 months and 3 days in prison (equal to the time spent in detention).

In addition to the above sentence, the court also ordered defendant Thuong to compensate the families of the three deceased people 245 million VND according to the agreement between the victim's representative and defendant Thuong.

Tien Hung