On April 28, the People’s Court of Ho Chi Minh City opened a first-instance trial and sentenced defendant Huynh Tan Dat (born 1982, resident of Binh Dinh, former secretary of the High People’s Court in Ho Chi Minh City) to 13 years in prison for the crime. “fraudulent appropriation of assets”.
At the trial, the representative of the Procuracy announced the indictment against Dat on the crime of “abusing positions and powers to appropriate property”. The Procuracy’s representative also suggested that the jury sentenced defendant Dat to 14-15 years in prison for the above crime. However, after deliberation, the trial panel decided that the defendant’s behavior that the procuracy prosecuted for the crime of “abusing positions and powers to appropriate property is incorrect, because the defendant’s behavior is fraud lie to appropriate other people’s property.
The defendant’s behavior is dangerous to society, infringes on other people’s property, and disregards the law, which should be severely punished. The trial panel decided to change the charge of defendant Dat from “abusing position and power, appropriating property” to the crime of “fraudulent appropriation of property”.
Former secretary of the High People’s Court in Ho Chi Minh City Huynh Tan Dat in court.
According to the indictment, Huynh Tan Dat is a senior clerk of the People’s Court in Ho Chi Minh City, assigned by the Court’s leadership to receive and classify appeals at the Judicial Administration Department. Because he needed money for personal use, Dat took advantage of his position and assigned duties to appropriate money from the involved parties in the cases. With the trick after receiving the application (with the attached phone number), Dat took the initiative to call the appellant, informing Dat that he was the recipient of the application and asked if he wanted to support and help. Contact Dat. Since then, those with appeals have called or met in person to ask for help.
Specifically, in the period from August 31, 2018 to March, 2020 The assignment of the task of accepting, receiving, studying and classifying appeals was achieved. Dat has repeatedly actively called the defendants in the case “Gambling” and “Gambling organization”, which happened on December 20, 2018 in Gia Nghia town (now Gia Nghia city), Dak Nong province asked the defendants to transfer money to Huynh Tan Dat’s personal account, with a total amount of VND 731 million and promised to take care of the above defendants to enjoy suspended sentences, reduce penalties. and appropriated from Mr. Nguyen Van Ngoc as the plaintiff in the civil case Land use right dispute and cancellation of land use right certificate” amount of 200 million VND to promise to take care of Mr. Ngoc’s appeal to win the case.
The High People’s Court in Ho Chi Minh City conducted an appellate trial of the above cases, not accepting the requests of the defendants in the case “Gambling”, “Gambling organization” and the plaintiff in the civil lawsuit. Although he could not help the defendants and plaintiffs in the cases as promised, Dat did not return the money received and spent it personally. Van Ngoc is 931 million VND.
In addition to the above judgment, the presiding judge also asked to continue investigating the victims who showed signs of giving bribes.
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