On the morning of April 1, the trial of defendant Truong My Lan (68 years old, Chairman of Van Thinh Phat Group) and 85 other defendants continued the debate with the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Procuracy responding to the defense’s views. lawyer’s defense, the defendant’s additional self-defense, and the point of view to protect rights.
After 2 weeks of defense, most of Truong My Lan’s co-defendants declared that they were only salaried workers, had absolute trust in Truong My Lan, and did not benefit from anything, so they asked the jury to consider an appropriate sentence. enjoy the leniency of the law.
“Truong My Lan needs to be removed from society”
During the impeachment on March 19, the representative of the People’s Procuracy asked the jury to sentence defendant Truong My Lan to 20 years in prison for bribery, 19 – 20 years in prison for violating regulations on banking operations and death penalty for property embezzlement. General penalty is death.
The Procuracy representative said that, in court, defendant Truong My Lan did not show remorse, gave crooked statements, and did not admit the crime. In addition, defendant Lan also blamed the staff and defendants at SCB; The consequences of the case are particularly serious, with no possibility of recovery.
Therefore, the representative of the People’s Procuracy believes that defendant Truong My Lan should be permanently removed from society.
According to the Procuracy representative, during the interrogation days, it was proven that Truong My Lan took advantage of the bank’s restructuring. After merging 3 banks, she gradually held SCB’s shares (91.5%), use SCB as a financial tool, withdraw money from SCB; Arrange your trusted personnel into key positions at SCB. Truong My Lan used SCB as a financial tool to serve her interests.
Truong My Lan also directed the establishment of “ghost” companies; colluding with appraisal companies to inflate the value of collateral assets; Directed the creation of a large number of false loan applications at SCB; Bribing and influencing people with positions and powers of the State Bank to conceal violations at SCB.
In addition, Truong My Lan also colluded with the owners and legal representatives of related companies to create loans and jointly use and appropriate SCB’s money.
This defendant also colluded and colluded with valuation companies to issue Certificates to falsely increase the value of secured assets; Failure to complete mortgage procedures, failure to register secured transactions to exchange collateral; Make a plan to withdraw money and cut off cash flow after disbursement; selling bad debt, clearing debt to reduce credit balance and bad debt ratio; Bribing officials and leaders at functional agencies to cover up and hide erroneous information.
“Defendant Truong My Lan is the mastermind and leader responsible for causing consequences in a particularly large case of more than 498,000 billion VND (after deducting collateral assets that have been evaluated by Hoang Quan Valuation Company). “, the Procuracy representative said.
In addition, Truong My Lan also met to discuss and directed Vo Tan Hoang Van to bribe Do Thi Nhan (former Director of Bank Inspection and Supervision Department II) with 5.2 million USD, and gave gifts and money to other members of the inspection team to conceal SCB’s weak situation so as not to put SCB under special control.
Although defendant Lan did not admit to instructing Vo Tan Hoang Van to meet and give money to Do Thi Nhan, based on defendant Vo Tan Hoang Van’s testimony, documentary evidence, and electronic data, it showed that Truong My Lan was The person who directed Van to meet and bribe defendant Do Thi Nhan.
The lawyer proposed to reconsider the embezzlement charge against Truong My Lan