Punish 2 cases of posting false information about the arrangement and merger of provinces and cities

The two cases punished are Mr. LVT (born 1988, residing in Vinh city), a reporter, and Mr. NVM (born 1988, residing in Tan Ky town, Nghe An province), a freelance worker.

Previously, on November 26, 2024, Facebook account NVM posted an article with the following content:“This is the information about province entry that I downloaded from the internet. I don’t know if it is correct.”with images said to be of 31 new administrative units based on the arrangement and merger of provinces and cities across the country.

On November 28, Mr. LVT's Facebook account D.C. posted similar images with the following content:“Plan to merge agencies from central to local level”.

After conducting verification, the Internal Political Security Department summoned Mr. LVT and Mr. NVM to work to clarify their actions.

During the process of working with the police, both admitted to all violations, although the information was not verified, but they posted it on their personal Facebook in order to increase interaction. Notably, NVM's Facebook account has a blue tick with more than 80,000 followers.

The behavior of these two cases was determined to violate Point a, Clause 1, Article 101, Decree No. 15/2020/ND-CP dated February 3, 2020 of the Government stipulating sanctions for administrative violations in postal services, telecommunications, radio frequencies, information technology and electronic transactions.

The Nghe An Police Internal Political Security Department has decided to fine each case 5 million VND for administrative violations.

In recent days, before the information about the planreorganize the apparatus in the political systemThere has been false and inaccurate information circulating, causing public confusion. Notably, a list of provincial administrative units that will be split and merged has been circulating on social networks. This list includes columns of information about the old provinces that will be split and merged; the name of the new province; the location of the provincial capital; the area of ​​separation and merger and the total area of ​​the new area; the population of each unit and the total population of the new administrative unit; data on the total product in the area... This is false information.

The Ministry of Home Affairs has sent a document requesting the Ministry of Public Security to coordinate with relevant agencies to review and handle the dissemination of false information related to the merger of provinces and centrally-run cities, causing public confusion and affecting social stability.

Nghe An police have also increased their work to grasp the situation, promptly detect and handle cases of posting false information on cyberspace according to the law.