Director of CDC Hau Giang submitted a gift bag with 450 million VND

On the afternoon of May 9, a police officer of Hau Giang province confirmed that the Director of Hau Giang CDC reported and handed over a gift bag of 450 million VND brought to his house by people from Viet A Technology Joint Stock Company (Viet A Company). . Currently, the gift bag has been recovered by the police to serve the investigation.

Yesterday, responding to the press, Lanh said the incident took place at noon on December 3, 2021. At that time, he came home from work in Vi Thanh City, was having lunch, someone called Nguyen, at Viet A Company, said he wanted to visit the office. He said he was at home (a pharmacy store, in front of Hau Giang maternity hospital) when this person came.

Mr. Lanh recounted, a man named Nguyen entered the house to inquire about the health and prevention of epidemics of the province… Then, this person went to the car, took the bag and placed it on the drug counter of Mr. Lanh’s house. When asked by Mr. Lanh, the answer was “training for brothers in epidemic prevention”.

After opening the gift bag, seeing a lot of money, Mr. Lanh ran to the car to ask, the person named Nguyen continued to answer “The epidemic should be fostered for you” and got in the car. Mr. Lanh called the phone, but “this person did not answer the phone”.

According to the director of the CDC Hau Giang, on the afternoon of the same day, he brought a gift bag to the agency, invited the functional departments and presented the incident of Viet A Company sending money. Then, together with the agency, he made a record, sealed it and assigned it to the Organization Department to keep; assigned the Planning Department to report to the provincial leaders.

“The Provincial People’s Committee assigned the police to work. After that, the police agency recovered the gift bag, inside there was 450 million VND”, Mr. Lanh said.

Reply VnExpress On the afternoon of May 9, Hau Giang Provincial Party Secretary Nghiem Xuan Thanh said that in addition to the Provincial Police to investigate and clarify, the province had assigned the Inspection Committee to set up an inspection team to verify the case. The province’s opinion will strictly handle any violations.

Previously, on May 5, Hau Giang province announced inspection results on “procurement of medical equipment, supplies, biological products, test kits, vaccines, and drugs to prevent Covid-19 for the Department of Health.” economy of this province.

In the two years 2020 and 2021, Hau Giang has three units, namely the Department of Health, CDC and Nga Bay City General Hospital, to buy chemicals, biological products and testing materials from Viet A Company, with a total amount of more than 11 ,4 billion dong.

To date, three units have paid 11 billion VND to Viet A Company. In which, the Department of Health signed three contracts with an amount of more than 7.2 billion, the provincial CDC signed two contracts with an amount of nearly 3.4 billion. Both of these units paid 100%.

After Mr. Phan Quoc Viet, Chairman and General Director of Viet A Company, arrested In mid-December 2021, the Police Department for Investigation of Crimes on Corruption, Economy and Smuggling (Ministry of Public Security) and local police prosecuted more than 30 people. Including 16 leaders and staff from many CDCs and Departments of Health.

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