How was the ‘secret’ of a tycoon trading 1 ton of explosives deciphered by the police?

Quang Binh Provincial Police are completing documents to handle Nguyen Van Thu (born in 1975, residing in Ngu Thuy commune) and Le Van Toan (born in 1976, residing in Sen Thuy commune), Le Thuy district. Two subjects have just been arrested in the illegal sale, transportation and possession of nearly 1 ton of explosives and many guns and ammunition.

Consider explosives a “treasure”

For a long time, many fishermen in the waters of Ngu Thuy commune, Le Thuy district consider dynamite as a “treasure” so it is indispensable when going out to sea. According to professionals, this is a low-investment fishing method with immediate results.

However, this way of exploiting resources causes destruction of the marine environment, directly threatens the lives of users and the risk of bad actors taking advantage of it to cause cases, threaten to kill people, and rob property. … has happened in some localities.

Around September 2021, the NVT1 special project was established, the project committee implemented the plan, but from November 2021 to March 2022, the operation of the explosives trading, storing and transporting line stopped because Hoang Van Doan (born in 1965, residing in Sen Binh village, Sen Thuy commune) was arrested by the Ba Ria – Vung Tau Provincial Police for illegal trading in explosives.

The “tycoon” fell into the net

At the beginning of the fishing season in 2022, in the waters of Ngu Thuy commune, there are often strange ships from the South Central provinces. These fishing boats are anchored nearly 1km from the shore so that local traders use bamboo boats to buy seafood as well as receive food supplies and continue to go to sea.

Previously, the assessment force received information, determined that the object was a local who both purchased seafood and provided goods (explosives) to fishing boats in the southern provinces and a number of fishing boats of fishermen. People in Duc Trach Commune, Bo Trach District.

Also according to the source, the objects of classification for sale to local fishermen traveling in bamboo boats near the shore are mainly class 2 and class 3 explosives (priced from 350,000 to 500,000 VND/kg), while large fishing vessels, fishing far away On shore, class 1 explosives cost from (500,000 – 600,000 VND/kg).

For many months, using synchronous professional measures, the scouts initially identified the suspect as Nguyen Van Thu (SN 1975, residing in Ngu Thuy commune), who is the owner of the seafood merchant in the locality. this communal table.

According to Senior Colonel Le Hong Ha, Deputy Head of Division PA09 (Investigative Security), the delivery method of this suspect is difficult to understand the rules and difficult to access, from the hidden location, the delivery method is regular. performed directly by this object.

The source of the subject’s goods was also not hidden at home, but divided into small sacks of 30-40 kg and buried in a secret location, about 1m deep in the sand. When receiving an order, the subject directly dug up and directly delivered.

Before the time of solving the case, around February 2022, the special case committee determined that the suspect was related to Le Van Toan (born in 1976, residing in Sen Binh village, Sen Thuy commune – a subject in the special project). before and also the source of explosives in Sen Thuy commune). At the same time, it was determined that Toan was collecting a large number of goods.

From the information the scouts reported, the leader of the Specialization Committee determined that the object would trade goods on May 10 in large quantities.

Immediately after that, the plans to solve the case were planned in detail, assigned each force, and the requirement was that it was necessary to ensure the element of surprise and secrecy to strongly suppress the subject because they were very active, capable of store “hot” goods.

At 4:00 am on May 10, when Le Van Toan had just loaded 21 sacks containing 820 kg of explosives onto the truck BKS 73C-010.20 driven by Nguyen Van Thu, he was stopped. The plan to solve the case happened unexpectedly, making the subjects unable to react.

Conducting a search of Thu’s residence in Liem Tien village (Ngu Thuy commune), functional forces discovered and seized near Thu’s residence 1 green envelope with 25kg of explosives inside.

Another working group promptly surrounded Le Van Toan, but this subject hid in the forest behind the house. After more than 2 hours of campaigning and persuasion, Toan returned home to present. Exploring Toan’s whereabouts, the investigation force seized a gun, 19 bullets and many other related exhibits.

Before the irrefutable evidence, Thu and Toan bowed their heads to confess.

According to Colonel Le Van Hoa (Deputy Director, Head of the Security Investigation Agency), this is a project without gunfire, absolutely safe and according to a pre-calculated plan. The subject’s sophisticated activities were deciphered by the Special Project Board, in which it was determined that there were many times when the subject found an opportune moment to hide explosives on the bottom of the boat and then transported it to the position of buoy number zero on the sea. Quang Binh to hide, when there are customers, the object pulls up to transact.

It is known that nearly 1 ton of explosives seized from the NVT1 project is the largest ever seized by the Quang Binh Provincial Police.

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