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Details of the case where the former head of the Tay Ho District Police Department accepted bribes to release people illegally

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Former police chief of Tay Ho district (Hanoi City) is accused of receiving VND 110 million to direct his subordinates to release people illegally detained.

The Supreme People’s Procuracy has just issued an indictment on the illegal release of arrested persons, persons being held in custody or temporary detention, and persons serving prison sentences; Accepting bribes occurred at the Tay Ho District Police, Hanoi.

Receiving money, directing subordinates to release illegal people

The indictment of the Procuracy prosecutes four defendants, in which, Mr. Phung Anh Le (former head of Tay Ho District Police, former head of Economic Police Department of Hanoi City Police) is accused of accepting bribes.

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Former Chief of Police of Tay Ho District Phung Anh Le. Photo: PB

At the time of prosecution, Mr. Le was arrested on the charge of illegally releasing the arrested person, the person being held in custody or temporary detention, and the person serving a prison sentence. However, up to now, the prosecution has decided to prosecute this accused for accepting bribes.

Mr. Le’s three subordinates are Nguyen Duc Chau (former criminal police captain), Vu Cong Ngoc (former criminal police deputy team leader) and Le Dinh Trung (former criminal judgment enforcement and support police officer). justice) are both prosecuted for the crime of unlawfully pardoning the arrested person, the person being held in custody or temporary detention, or the person serving a prison sentence.

The indictment determined that from September 2016, the police of Yen Phu ward accepted the case that NCT reported that he was illegally arrested by a group of strangers, beaten and injured. During the investigation, the suspect in the case, Nguyen Huu Tai, went to the police station to surrender and was taken into custody.

However, Tai’s family members asked an acquaintance to find the head of Tay Ho District Police at that time, Mr. Le, for help. Mr. Le asked Tai’s family to prepare 110 million VND to reconcile with the victim.

Following the above instructions, an acquaintance of Tai’s family brought 110 million VND to the office, gave it to Mr. Le, put it on the desk and asked for help with reconciliation.

After receiving the money, as the head of the Tay Ho District Police Department, Mr. Le directed his subordinates to let Tai go home without any grounds, without a decision to cancel the decision on custody according to criminal procedures.

The prosecution assessed that Mr. Le did not confess to the crime, denied the whole incident, blamed his subordinates and related people, actively created untruthful and objective evidence to conceal his actions. commit his crime.

However, on the basis of collected evidences and documents, the Procuracy affirmed that there were enough grounds to conclude that this defendant abused his position, authority, and working position, actively suggested accepting bribes No. VND 110 million and directly directed subordinates to illegally release Nguyen Huu Tai.

Although Phung Anh Le denied and blamed his subordinates, the Procuracy had enough evidence and documents to conclude that this defendant abused his position and suggested accepting a bribe of 110 million VND.

“This district belongs to the boss, you can’t do whatever you want”

As for the remaining three defendants, the Procuracy determined that these people knew that Mr. Phung Anh Le’s instructions were illegal but still obeyed and illegally pardoned Nguyen Huu Tai.

Accordingly, after receiving the money, Mr. Le called his subordinates to ask to bring the documents of the case down for review. The former district police chief said that the evidence of Tai’s detention was weak, so he directed “to take the suspect out of the detention house”.

Before this request, defendant Vu Cong Ngoc said that Tai was executing a decision on custody, if he wanted to return, he must have a decision to cancel custody or decide to release him. However, Mr. Le still asked his subordinates to continue to carry out his orders.

Around 0:00 on September 23, 2016, Ngoc and some criminal officers came to take Tai out of the detention house. At that time, defendant Le Dinh Trung, who was in charge of the shift at the detention house, objected to this because there was no decision to cancel the detention.

Immediately, Mr. Trung received instructions from his superiors in charge that “the boss has directed, you must listen, this district belongs to the boss, you can do whatever you want”. That same night, Tai was released.

“Although all three defendants are aware that their actions carried out under the direction of Phung Anh Le are illegal, before and after the execution, the defendants did not report to the competent authorities and did not inform the authorities. notify the procuracies of the same level, so they must be responsible for the consequences caused by their violations” – the indictment stated.

The crime of accepting bribes carries the highest penalty of death

Article 354 of the 2015 Penal Code stipulates that a person who abuses his position and authority directly or through an intermediary receives or will receive any of the following benefits for himself or herself or for another person or organization to do or not: doing an act for the benefit of or at the request of the bribe-giver, shall be sentenced to between two and seven years of imprisonment:

– Receiving money, property or other material benefits worth between VND 2 million and under VND 100 million or under VND 2 million but has been disciplined for this act but still commits it or has been convicted of a crime. in corruption crimes, whose criminal records have not been cleared but still commit them.

– Get non-material benefits.

In case of an organized crime or a bribe valued at between VND 100 million and under VND 500 million or causing property damage from VND 3 billion to under VND 5 billion, depending on the case, the offenders shall be sentenced to seven years of imprisonment. up to 20 years.

In particular, offenders who receive money, property or other material benefits worth 1 billion VND or more or cause property damage of 5 billion VND or more, shall be sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment, life imprisonment or death.

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