Two people who run the group “exorcist Bao Loc” are administratively fined

On the afternoon of May 12, the Cyber ​​Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention Division of Lam Dong Provincial Police said that it had just issued a decision to sanction administrative violations against two members of the group “exorcist Bao Loc”. ” about the act of “providing false information in cyberspace” with a total amount of 17.5 million dong.

Lam Dong province police invited Ms. Nguyen Thi Thuong (born in 1975) and Mr. Nguyen Chu Truyen (born in 1948, living in ward 1, Bao Loc city) to clarify the act of providing and sharing false information. real in cyberspace, confusing public opinion.

Thereby, both Thuong and Truyen participated in providing and sharing information about the Covid-19 epidemic and Covid-19 vaccine on cyberspace (in the video titled “Where does the Voice of Truth come from?” ?Live Sharing session – Voices of Truth Part 221″, publicly posted on the Youtube page “Exorcise The Demons”, with the content that “this Covid-19 epidemic is not a natural epidemic but caused by ghosts” The devil interferes; the vaccination against Covid-19 is to introduce other pathogens into the body, decomposing the human genome; Covid-19 is not afraid of heat, not afraid of cold, and not afraid of fire, but is afraid of water… so having a “sacred source of water” is to cure Covid-19).

The above information is not true, not in accordance with the regulations on the work of prevention and control of Covid-19 epidemic of the health sector.

In particular, Nguyen Thi Thuong and Nguyen Chu Truyen are two key cases, establishing and operating a self-proclaimed “evil exorcist Bao Loc” group (address at 53/5 Ho Tung Mau, Ward 1, Bao Loc City, province). Lam Dong) has taken advantage of religious activities to propagate superstition, cure diseases by anti-scientific methods (“exorcise demons”, beat, violence…), causing public anger, causing insecurity in the locality.

In addition, members of the “Bao Loc exorcism” group also regularly post and distribute a lot of information and videos on social networks (Youtube, Facebook, etc.) to attract more people to join.

2 subjects Nguyen Thi Thuong and Nguyen Chu Truyen at the police station (Photo provided by the police)

Working with Lam Dong Provincial Police, Ms. Thuong and Mr. Truyen admitted that the above information was said by the two people themselves, according to the “spiritual” thought of the “Bao Loc exorcism” group, not related to with the authorities to verify the accuracy of information; there is no scientific basis, official documents on the above contents.

In the process of making the video, Ms. Thuong and Mr. Truyen had a discussion and agreement with many other people on how to organize, record the video, and what information will be provided and shared to post on the Internet for many people. other know and watch the video.

The behavior of Ms. Nguyen Thi Thuong and Mr. Nguyen Chu Truyen is a violation of the law specified at Point a, Clause 1, Article 101 of Decree No. 15/2020/ND-CP dated February 3, 2020 of the Government regulating handling fines for administrative violations in the fields of post, telecommunications, radio frequencies, information technology, network information security and electronic transactions.

The Cybersecurity and High-Tech Crime Prevention Department of Lam Dong Province Police issued a decision to sanction administrative violations against Ms. Nguyen Thi Thuong (a fine of VND 10 million) and Mr. Nguyen Chu Truyen (a fine of VND 10 million). 7.5 million dong). The total penalty for 2 people is 17.5 million VND.