Ex-police broker to protect ‘king’ car received 7 years in prison

According to the trial panel, the defendants sincerely declared and returned part or all of the illicit profits, so a reduced sentence is required.

As for the testimony of defendants Van and Thoi about the fact that 78 traffic police and traffic officers received money from the defendants to ignore the cars with the logo with the symbol (the king’s car logo), the jury found that in addition to the defendants’ testimony, There is no evidence to prove it, so there is no basis for criminal prosecution of traffic police and traffic officers.

The trial panel also accepted the proposal of the Procuratorate, recommending that the traffic police and traffic police forces in Ho Chi Minh City, Binh Duong, Dong Nai need to take measures to check, correct and fix the holes to avoid the same situation as the logo case. Car “king” happens in the future.

Therefore, after considering, the Trial Panel decided to sentence defendant Chan to 7 years in prison for the crime of “bribery brokering”; defendant Nguyen Van Thoi 13 years; Le Thi Cam Van 3 years and 6 months and defendant Tran Quoc Thai 9 years in prison; The remaining defendants must also receive 1 year, 8 months and 25 days in prison (equivalent to the detention time) for the same crime of “Giveaways”.

Forcing the defendants to return the entire amount of bribes given and brokered, as well as the proceeds of the defendants’ illicit profits, to collect state budget.

This is the sentence that the defendants must receive lower than the first instance trial. Accordingly, at the first instance hearing, the People’s Court of Ho Chi Minh City sentenced defendant Chan to 8 years in prison, Thoi 14 years, Thai 10 years. five, Van 9 years in prison; The defendants involved in the case also received from 1 year, 6 months to 4 years in prison.

According to the prosecution, in the process of trading trucks, Thoi’s car was often fined for overloading, so he hooked up with the traffic police to ask for money, affixed logos on the overloaded trucks so that some traffic officers, Traffic police when on duty recognize and do not impose fines. Thoi invited Thai to join in selling the “king car” logo.

Thoi asked Chan for help so that the traffic police would not penalize overloaded trucks for cars with logos sold by Thoi. Chan agreed and told a Captain of the 1st Division of the Traffic Police Department of the Dong Nai Provincial Police Department about Thoi’s request and he agreed.

In April 2015, the captain of the first team of the Dong Nai Provincial Police Department’s Traffic Police Department died of illness, Chan continued to ask a Deputy Head of the Traffic Police Department of the Dong Nai Provincial Police Department to help and was accepted. Then, Thoi transferred VND 600 million to Chan for a bribe, Chan gave the Deputy of Traffic Police Department VND 300 million and kept VND 300 million. According to the investigation results, Chan acted as an intermediary for Thoi to pay a bribe of 1.2 billion VND.

After hooking up with some corrupt policemen, Thoi and Thai printed and sold logos to car owners and drivers to stick on the front of the car as a sign.

The line of buying and selling the logo of the “king car” to protect overloaded vehicles led by Thoi lasted for more than 1 year, from January 2014 to August 2015 sold 15,000 vehicles, earning nearly 23 illegal profits. billions dong.

Similarly, Le Thi Cam Van and her accomplices also printed logos for car owners to stick on the front glass. In just 3 months from May to August 2015, Van and his accomplices sold the logo and earned nearly 8 billion VND.

Thanh Phuong