Director and accomplices who fraudulently sold 238 apartments on defense land sentenced
Director of Bach Viet Company and accomplices defrauded and sold 238 apartments on national defense land, embezzling more than 318 billion VND.
From March 31 to April 3, the Military Court of Military Region 5 opened a first-instance trial of the criminal case against the defendants Dinh Tien Su (born 1972, from Ha Tinh), Nguyen Van Dat (born 1975, from Thanh Hoa) and Bui Tien Dung (born 1979, from Quang Nam) for the crime of "fraudulent appropriation of property".
Previously, at the trial in December 2021, the Military Court of Military Region 5 returned the case file for further investigation when a number of new victims appeared in the case.
According to the indictment of the Central Military Procuracy, Dinh Tien Su is the Director of Bach Viet Production - Trade - Service Company Limited (abbreviated as Bach Viet Company, headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City), Nguyen Van Dat is the Director of Bach Viet branch in Nha Trang, and Bui Tien Dung is in charge of the company's real estate sales department.
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| Defendants in court. Photo: Trang Tran |
During the process of implementing the transaction and constructing the two hotels Bach Viet Nha Trang and Bach Viet Da Lat (in Nha Trang City, Khanh Hoa), the defendants clearly knew that the apartments belonging to the business project "restaurant, guest house and commercial complex, restaurant, hotel, office" for which Bach Viet Company signed a cooperation contract with Military Region 5 and Military Region 7 were built on defense land, mortgaged at MB Bank, and were not allowed to be bought, sold or transferred.
However, Su, Dat, and Dung provided false information such as promising to pay high profits to customers, committing to make apartment ownership papers, committing that tourist apartments are not prohibited from trading; not informing about apartments that are mortgaged at banks, instructing employees to forge lawyers' signatures... to create trust among the people.
The indictment determined that the three defendants had fraudulently sold 238 apartments to 171 people, appropriating more than 318 billion VND.
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| After 4 days of trial, the Military Court of Military Region 5 sentenced the defendants. Photo: Trang Tran |
In this case, Dinh Tien Su played the role of mastermind and was primarily responsible, Nguyen Van Dat and Bui Tien Dung were assistants.
After 4 days of trial, on the afternoon of April 3, the Military Court of Military Region 5 sentenced the defendants for the crime of "fraudulent appropriation of property".
Specifically, defendant Dinh Tien Su was sentenced to 18 years in prison, plus the sentence of 2 years and 6 months in prison in the January 2017 verdict of the People's Court of Tan Binh District (HCMC) for the crime of "forging seals and documents of organizations", the total sentence that the defendant must serve is 20 years and 6 months in prison. Defendant Nguyen Van Dat was sentenced to 7 years in prison, defendant Bui Tien Dung to 8 years in prison. The defendants were forced to compensate the entire amount of money they had appropriated from the victims.