Phan Quoc Viet declared that 142 billion VND in 52 savings books was borrowed from his mother when building the company. The jury summoned the defendant’s mother to court to clarify the origin of this money.
On January 5, the Hanoi People’s Court continued to hear the Viet A case. It is expected that the mother of defendant Phan Quoc Viet (Chairman of Viet A Company) will be summoned to court to clarify the amount of 142 billion VND in her name in 52 savings books.
Responding to the jury about frozen assets, Phan Quoc Viet said there were 3 bank accounts and 55 savings books in the defendant’s name with a total amount of more than 320 billion VND frozen.
In addition, the authorities also blocked 52 savings books in the name of the defendant’s mother with a total amount of 142 billion VND and 2 savings books worth 20 billion VND in the name of the defendant’s child (14 years old).
Chairman Viet A said that he will fix it with all the assets in his name. Particularly, the account in the defendant’s mother’s name was Vietnamese money to pay her mother’s debt during the long process of building the company. This property belongs to the defendant’s mother.
The defendant said that during the 15 years that Viet A Company did business, many times the defendant had to borrow money from his family, had to ask his family for help, and he did not have enough strength. As for the money in his child’s two savings books, Phan Quoc Viet admitted that this was his money. This amount of money Viet gets from many different activities.
The jury raised the question: “Can the defendant prove that it was debt repayment? Are there any loan documents?”.
In response, the defendant said he had no documents.
The jury continued to ask: “That’s a big amount of money. Where do you think your mother got to lend you that much money?”
Viet replied that the defendant did not know, perhaps his mother borrowed from relatives and friends and did not have any documents.
The jury thinks this is unreasonable.
In court, Ho Thi Thanh Thuy (Phan Quoc Viet’s wife) said that since the outbreak in China, she has researched test kits herself. In January 2020, when Viet talked about collaborating with the Military Medical Academy in research and production, he knew but did not work directly. “Everything was discussed over the phone with my husband,” Thuy said.
Regarding the issue of overcoming the consequences, Thuy said that after being arrested, Phan Quoc Viet authorized his wife to run Viet A Joint Stock Company. He and the company will try to overcome the problem in the spirit of “doing their best.” maybe”.
Near the end of the trial on the afternoon of January 4, the jury asked those with rights and obligations related to the case to express their wishes for consideration.
Defendant Trinh Thanh Hung’s wife (former Deputy Director of the Department of Science and Technology, economic and technical branches, Ministry of Science and Technology) said that her husband was aware of the mistake and the family submitted to remedy all consequences. result of the case.
In addition, the family also paid an additional 50 million VND, so they hoped the jury would consider this a mitigating circumstance for Mr. Hung.
Defendant Hung’s wife also wanted to have the couple’s 8 savings books unblocked because she had to raise 2 children in college and her mother-in-law was old.
The son of defendant Pham Xuan Thang (former Secretary of Hai Duong) said that the family had completely overcome the consequences, so he asked the court to lift the restriction on account transactions of 300 million VND and 1 real estate; The defendant’s wife also asked to remove the blockade from an apartment in Hoang Hoa Tham and a real estate in Quoc Oai district.
Defendant Chu Ngoc Anh’s wife also asked to remove the blockade on the real estate being distrained.
In addition, representatives of CDC and health departments of relevant provinces all expressed their desire to recover lost assets in the case, and asked the jury to consider mitigating circumstances for the defendants because of their achievements in fighting the epidemic. .