Court of Appeal sentenced former Hanoi Chairman Nguyen Duc Chung
Because defendant Nguyen Duc Chung and his accomplices have fully remedied their civil responsibilities in the case, the appellate panel accepted the request of the representative of the High People's Procuracy in Hanoi to exercise the right to prosecute at the trial to request a reduction in the sentence for defendant Nguyen Duc Chung and his accomplices.
After a half-day recess for deliberation, on the afternoon of June 22, the High People's Court of Appeal in Hanoi issued a verdict against defendant Nguyen Duc Chung (former Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee) and his accomplices in the case of illegally purchasing Redoxy-3C.
The appellate panel accepted the request of the representative of the High People's Procuracy in Hanoi to exercise the right to prosecute at the trial regarding the request to reduce the sentence for defendant Nguyen Duc Chung and his accomplices.
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Three defendants: Nguyen Duc Chung, Nguyen Truong Giang and Vo Tien Hung listen to the verdict. |
Accordingly, the appellate panel decided to reduce the sentence for defendant Nguyen Duc Chung from 8 years in prison to 5 years in prison for the crime of "Abusing position and power while performing official duties". For the same crime, the appellate panel also reduced the sentence for defendant Nguyen Truong Giang (former Director of Arktic Trading and Service Company Limited) from 4 years and 6 months in prison to 3 years in prison; defendant Vo Tien Hung (former General Director of Hanoi Drainage Company Limited) also had his sentence reduced from 4 years in prison to 30 months in prison.
Previously, during the appeal trial of this case, after the representative of the Procuracy exercised the right to prosecute at the trial and requested the panel of judges to reject the appeal of defendant Nguyen Duc Chung, reject the appeal for a lighter sentence of defendant Nguyen Truong Giang and reject the petition for a lighter sentence of defendant Vo Tien Hung, at the end of the afternoon of June 21 (before the panel of judges finished the debate to deliberate), the defense lawyer and relatives of defendant Nguyen Duc Chung provided the panel of judges with documents showing that defendant Nguyen Duc Chung's family had paid an additional VND 15 billion to the enforcement agency to remedy the consequences. In addition to the VND 10 billion that Ms. Nguyen Thi Van (defendant Nguyen Duc Chung's sister paid on behalf of the defendant), it was VND 25 billion.
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Defendant Nguyen Duc Chung. |
Similarly, defendant Nguyen Truong Giang also compensated 7 billion VND, and defendant Vo Tien Hung compensated 4 billion VND, which the Court of First Instance determined that the two defendants Giang and Hung must remedy the consequences of the violations they caused.
With the above developments, before the appellate panel deliberated the verdict, the representative of the Procuracy exercising the right to prosecute at the trial changed the opinion of the indictment, when requesting the appellate panel to consider reducing part of the sentence for defendant Nguyen Duc Chung and canceling the entire decision to seize defendant Nguyen Duc Chung's assets.
