Nghe An Provincial People's Procuracy appeals to annul the first instance verdict in the case of Le Thi Dung
(Baonghean.vn) - The People's Procuracy of Nghe An province has issued an appeal, requesting the Provincial People's Court to review the appeal in the direction of annulling the first instance judgment for re-investigation and re-trial, ensuring compliance with legal provisions.
On the morning of May 25, speaking with a reporter from Nghe An Newspaper, the spokesman of the People's Procuracy of Nghe An province said that, performing the functions and tasks of the Procuracy in the appeal trial of criminal cases, through studying the case of Le Thi Dung committing the crime of "Abusing position and power while performing official duties" tried at first instance by the People's Court of Hung Nguyen district, the People's Procuracy of the province issued an appeal, requesting the People's Court of the province to review the appeal in the direction of annulling the first instance judgment for re-investigation and re-trial, ensuring compliance with the provisions of law.
The appeal decision of the Provincial People's Procuracy has been served to the People's Court of Hung Nguyen district and defendant Le Thi Dung, currently being detained at the Nghe An Provincial Police Detention Center.
The first instance trial of the case occurred at the Vocational Education and Continuing Education Center of Hung Nguyen district. Photo courtesy |
It is known that the People's Court of Hung Nguyen district is currently completing procedures to transfer the case file of defendant Le Thi Dung - former Director of the Continuing Education Center of Hung Nguyen district to the People's Court of Nghe An province for appeal trial according to its jurisdiction.
Previously, on April 7, 10, 11, 17 and 24, 2023, the People's Court of Hung Nguyen district, Nghe An province opened a public first-instance trial of the criminal case against the defendants Le Thi Dung and Nguyen Thi Huong, prosecuted by the People's Procuracy of Hung Nguyen district for the crime of "Taking advantage of position and power while performing official duties".
According to the case, in her position as Director of the Continuing Education Center of Hung Nguyen District, during the period 2012-2017, defendant Le Thi Dung declared a number of payments twice for a financial transaction.
Specifically, defendant Le Thi Dung was paid the first time for the content of Party Cell Secretary, support for graduate studies and training in accordance with the provisions of law. Then, the defendant continued to convert these contents into teaching hours to pay for overtime (2nd payment) in 2015 with the amount of more than 30.9 million VND; in 2016 with the amount of 13.8 million VND. The total amount of more than 44.7 million VND was transferred to Le Thi Dung's personal account.
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Center for Continuing Education and Vocational Training of Hung Nguyen district. |
In the first instance criminal verdict, the People's Court of Hung Nguyen district sentenced defendant Le Thi Dung to 5 years in prison (the lowest level of the penalty framework); Nguyen Thi Huong (former accountant of the Continuing Education Center of Hung Nguyen district) to 2 years in prison, suspended, for the crime of "Abusing position and power while performing official duties".
After the first instance trial, defendant Le Thi Dung and her family filed an appeal.