Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs To Anh Dung arrested

On April 14, discussed with Newspaper WorkersLieutenant General To An Xo, Chief of Office and Spokesperson of the Ministry of Public Security, said that the Security Investigation Agency of the Ministry of Public Security had issued a decision to prosecute the accused and arrest him. To Anh Dung , Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs; Pham Trung Kien, an expert in the Department of Equipment and Construction of the Ministry of Health, and Vu Anh Tuan, a former officer of the Immigration Department – the Ministry of Public Security, together, on charges of accepting bribes.

Mr. To Anh Dung, before being prosecuted, was taken into custody

Mr. To Anh Dung was arrested in connection with the criminal case of Giving bribes and Taking bribes that occurred at the Consular Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, during the approval process for licensing companies to carry out flights to bring citizens. Vietnam returns home from abroad for personal gain.

After being approved by the Supreme People’s Procuracy, the Investigative Security Agency of the Ministry of Public Security served the decision to prosecute the accused, executed the order to arrest the accused for temporary detention, search his residence and place of residence. work for the above accused.

Previously, on January 27, the Investigative Security Agency of the Ministry of Public Security prosecuted the case, prosecuted the accused, detained and executed search warrants for 4 defendants including: Nguyen Thi Huong Lan (SN 1974). ), Director of the Consular Department; Do Hoang Tung (born 1980, residing in Hanoi), Deputy Director of Consular Department; Le Tuan Anh (born 1982, residing in Hung Yen), Chief of Consular Department Office; Luu Tuan Dung (born 1987, residing in Hanoi), Deputy Head of the Citizens Protection Department, Consular Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, together on the crime of accepting bribes. On March 25, the Investigation Security Agency of the Ministry of Public Security had just issued a decision to supplement the decision to prosecute the criminal case of Giving bribes; Decision to prosecute the accused, Arrest warrant for Hoang Dieu Mo (SN 1980, General Director of An Binh Commercial, Tourism and Aviation Services Co., Ltd.) on the crime of giving bribes.

During the investigation of the case, the Investigative Security Agency of the Ministry of Public Security also sent a document to the Ministry of Transport, requesting to provide a list of “rescue” flights for investigation.

Accordingly, the Investigation Security Agency requested the Transport Minister to direct the units to provide documents to clarify the policy of organizing rescue flights and combos to bring Vietnamese citizens back home from when; based on which criteria and basis for the Ministry of Transport to consider and approve the flight grant; What is the process and procedure for approving the airline to fly combo, “rescue”…

The investigating agency requested to provide a detailed list of airlines, flights (time, plane number, take-off/landing airport) and companies/enterprises that have been licensed by the Ministry of Transport to deploy the services. flight “rescue”, combo; plans and approval documents; the list of citizens who have been brought back from abroad on these flights; contract, payment cost of each flight…

In addition, the Ministry of Transport is also asked to provide a list of individuals assigned at the Ministry of Transport to perform the task of receiving and approving for airlines and businesses that perform combo flights and “rescue”.

Mr. To Anh Dung was born in 1964 in Hanoi. Mr. Dung has been working in the diplomatic service since 1991.

Experiencing many positions in the industry, since 2016, he has held the position of Director of the Department of Organization and Personnel, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In 2017, besides the position of Director General, he concurrently held the position of Assistant Minister until February 2019.

In March 2019, he was appointed as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs by the Prime Minister. Mr. Dung was then appointed to concurrently hold the position of Chairman of the Committee for Working on Foreign Non-Governmental Organizations.

In January 2022, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs To Anh Dung was appointed as Vietnamese Ambassador to Japan concurrently the Republic of the Marshall Islands. However, Mr. Dung has not officially accepted this position.

According to Nguyen Huong