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The Supreme Peoples Procuracy has just issued an indictment and prosecution before the Hanoi Peoples Court to research and judge 23 defendants guilty of property embezzlement, tax evasion, and illegal purchase and sale of invoices, which occurred at Thien Minh Duc Company and related businesses. Download Defendant Chu Thi Thanh (from left, from top to bottom) and a number of defendants at Thien Minh Duc Company - Photo:BCAProsecution of a series of business directors for property embezzlement and tax evasion. In particular, the Supreme Peoples Procuracy prosecuted Ms. Chu Thi Thanh (Chairwoman of the Board of Directors of Thien Minh Duc Company); Le Thanh An and Mai Anh Tuyen (both Deputy General Directors of Thien Minh Duc Company); Nguyen Thi Bich Lien (Chief Accountant Thien Minh Duc); Chu Duc Manh (Head of Thien Minh Duc Business Department) for the crimes of Embezzlement of assets, Illegal printing, issuance, trading of invoices and State budget payment documents. Defendants Ha Ngoc Vinh (accountant of PVoil Vung Ang); Nguyen Thi Thanh Hai (accountant Thien Minh Duc) was prosecuted for Embezzlement of assets. In addition, other business owners are defendant Mai Thi Kim (Director of Hoang Kim Company); Truong Dinh Hai (Chairman of the Board of Members of Ngan Tin Company); Pham Duc Tiep (Director of Ngan Tin Company, Hanoi branch); Do The Nang (General Director of BMT Company); Le Mai Tu (Director of Hai An Company); Nguyen Van Cong (Director of Hop Manh Company); Tran Quoc Loc (Director of Duy Ngoc Company); Le Van Dong (Chairman of the Board of Directors and Director of Binh Minh Cooperative); Dao Dang Khai (Deputy Director of Hai Loc Company) was prosecuted for Tax Evasion. The defendants: Le Thi Ngoc Lan; Pham Thi Quynh Trang; Nguyen Truong Son; Chu Viet Hung; Duong Thi Thanh Huong; Le Khac Duan (both Thien Minh Duc employees) was accused of Illegal trading of invoices and documents to pay the state budget. In particular, defendant Cao Bao Ngoc (Director of Viet Trung Company) was charged with two crimes of Property embezzlement and Tax evasion. From 2020 - 2022, Thien Minh Duc Company was accused of selling nearly 78.4 million liters of gasoline, worth more than 1,056 billion Dong, to 25 companies but did not issue VAT invoices. In addition, this business also sold more than 28.7 million liters of gasoline, worth about 310 billion VND, to visitors without issuing invoices, without setting aside a BOG price stabilization fund of more than 67.3 billion VND. RELATED NEWS Prosecution of 65 defendants in the major case that occurred at the Central Institute of Forensic Psychiatry. Indictment issued to prosecute the truck driver who hit and killed a female student in Vinh Long prosecuted Pho Duc Nam and his accomplices in the forex fraud ring. Ms. Chu Thi Thanh also directed her subordinates to issue 153 false invoices to 21 companies and return 13 invoices to another business, corresponding to about 97 million liters of gasoline, worth more than 1,344 billion VND. Thereby, Ms. Thanh and her accomplices embezzled 79.1 billion VND from Thien Minh Ducs BOG fund. The accountant embezzled more than 94 billion VND for online gambling. In addition to the criminal acts of the defendants at Thien Minh Duc Company, the prosecution also clarified the embezzlement of assets that occurred at PVOil Vung Ang. Specifically, defendant Ha Ngoc Vinh (a warehouse accountant in the Finance and Accounting Department of PVOil Vung Ang) had the task of Manage, monitor, compare and check goods data at the companys warehouses and contract warehouses. Taking advantage of his assigned powers and the loophole of using Smart accounting software that could adjust sales data without being detected, Vinh had the intention of appropriating PVOil Vung Angs gasoline. In 2016, Vinh agreed with Cao Bao Ngoc (Director of Viet Trung Company) for Vinh to sell gasoline without invoices at a price lower than the price announced by PVOil Vung Ang from 500 - 1,000 VND. copper/liter; Ngoc will pay for the goods into the personal account designated by Vinh or in cash. When Cao Bao Ngoc agrees, Vinh and Ngoc agree on the delivery and receipt of the goods by having Viet Trung Company staff place the order and receive the goods in accordance with PVOil Vung Angs procedures. For every shipment that Vinh sold without issuing an invoice, Vinh informed Ngoc not to pay for the goods to PVOil Vung Ang but to transfer the purchase money from Cao Bao Ngocs account to Vinhs account, or hand over cash. To balance the books of goods sold to Ngoc, defendant Vinh edited on Smart software to increase the amount of gasoline and oil at standard temperature of 15degC (referred to as V15) sold to many other customers at Vung Ang warehouse to be higher than the data. V15 actually exported (in which, each Vinh customer increased the volume from 200 - 400 liters, equivalent to 2 - 3% to match the thermal expansion rate of gasoline), so that the total volume of modified goods from customers was equal to the amount of V15 goods sold without invoices to Ngoc. Investigation results determined that, from December 2016 to April 2025, Vinh exported and sold without VAT invoices to Cao Bao Ngoc. 187 times, total amount of 5,095,035 liters of gasoline and oil, worth more than 94 billion VND. Defendant Cao Bao Ngoc admitted that he bought the above mentioned amount of gasoline and oil from Vinh, which Vinh gave him a discount of 4.6 billion VND. The amount of gasoline Ngoc resold to fishing boat owners in the Quang Tri area to repay Vinh more than 89 billion VND. The accusation has determined that to date, defendant Ha Ngoc Vinh has handed over to PVOil Vung Ang more than 6.2 billion VND; The remaining balance has not been recovered, Vinh claimed to have used the money from selling goods to Ngoc to gamble onlineinternet network, lost everything. Defendant Cao Bao Ngoc also voluntarily handed over 4.6 billion VND for illegal benefits to PVOil Vung Ang. Toan Thang
