Prosecuting the leader of a petrol and oil smuggling line of more than VND 2,000 billion

According to the filing, in September 2015, Luyen Xuan Trang reached an agreement with the General Director of Duong Dong Saigon Joint Stock Company to receive and transfer 80% of shares of Duong Dong Hoa Phu Company for 430 billion VND.

Because Duong Dong Hoa Phu Company still owes a bank loan, Luyen Xuan Trang receives all assets and liabilities of Duong Dong Hoa Phu Company and is responsible for repaying the loan. Implementing the above agreement, Luyen Xuan Trang discussed and reached an agreement with Nguyen Duc Manh on the fact that Trang and Manh jointly bought 80% shares of Duong Dong Hoa Phu Company, of which Manh had 30% shares and acted as General Director. directly in Binh Thuan to manage the company’s operations, the remaining 50% of shares are held by Luyen Xuan Trang.

After completing the procedures for transferring shares, Luyen Xuan Trang assigned Nguyen Duc Manh to direct, operate and decide on domestic petroleum consumption at Duong Dong Hoa Phu Company. The import of gasoline and oil from abroad is agreed upon by Luyen Xuan Trang with the seller. In which, Luyen Xuan Trang agreed to buy a large quantity of goods, but only declared a small quantity, so in the sale contract, only a part of the quantity of goods actually imported was recorded. The actual imported quantity is divided into 2 bills of lading, in which 1 bill of lading has the quantity in accordance with the quantity stated in the sale and purchase contract, used for customs declaration, and the remaining bill of lading is the quantity of smuggled goods. .

12 defendants related to the largest petroleum smuggling ring in Binh Thuan were brought to trial, December 2018. Photo: NT

With this tactic, from October 14, 2015 to January 29, 2016, Luyen Xuan Trang implemented, guided and directed Nguyen Duc Manh to run the smuggling of 12 petrol and oil shipments with the quantity 53,163,359 tons of A92 gasoline and 53,268.206 tons of DO 0.05%S oil, totaling more than 2,034 billion VND.

After smuggling gasoline and oil to Vietnam, Luyen Xuan Trang directed his subordinates to contact and sell smuggled petroleum to many businesses in Binh Thuan, Khanh Hoa, Dak Lak, Long An, Tien Giang, Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi,….

After a long time of evading a wanted warrant, on September 14, 2019, Luyen Xuan Trang went to the Police Department of the Ministry of Public Security to surrender.

Regarding this case, in December 2018, the People’s Court of Binh Thuan province gave first-instance trial to 7 defendants for the crime of “Smuggling”, 2 for “Illegal transportation of goods across the border”. , 1 defendant for the crime of “Receiving bribes”, 3 defendants for the crime of “Giving bribes”, 1 defendant for the crime of “Lack of responsibility causing serious consequences”.

In addition to issuing a prosecution indictment, the Supreme People’s Procuracy also assigned the People’s Procuracy of Binh Thuan province to exercise the right to prosecute and supervise the first-instance trial against Luyen Xuan Trang for the crime of “smuggling” according to point a, clause 4, Article 188 of the Penal Code. 2015 (amended and supplemented in 2017); Eight other defendants were charged with the crime of “Consuming property acquired by other people’s crimes” under Point a, Clause 4, Article 250 of the Penal Code 1999 (amended and supplemented in 2009).

This is the biggest smuggling and consumption of smuggled petroleum so far in Binh Thuan, attracting special attention from the public.

According to Chau Tinh