Trial of the "big case" of the Vietnam Registry: Director of the registry center confessed to "receiving bribes but not benefiting"

According to the case file, defendant Ho Huu Tai, Director of the 50-17D Vehicle Inspection Center, who only finished second grade, is accused of being responsible for accepting bribes of more than 480 million VND.

Trial of the "big case" of the Vietnam Register

On July 31, Ho Chi Minh City People's Court continued to try the case that occurred at the Vietnam Register (VRS) and registration centers.

At the trial, lawyers participated in questioning the defendants whose violations occurred at the Private Vehicle Inspection Center (Block D).

Defendants at the trial on July 31

Responding to questioning, Ho Huu Tai, Director of An Phat Company (the company that established Inspection Center 50-17D) admitted to the crime as charged in the indictment.

Ho Huu Tai and Nguyen Thanh Phong (Chairman of the Board of Directors of An Phat Company) advocated for inspectors to accept bribes from vehicle owners to ignore the failure of vehicles for inspection with the aim of increasing revenue because the company was continuously losing money and did not have enough money to pay salaries to employees and rent. Afterwards, Ho Huu Tai assigned his son-in-law Dinh Thanh Trung to directly receive bribes from vehicle owners.

The indictment determined that Ho Huu Tai must bear criminal responsibility for the act of “Receiving bribes” for a total amount of more than 480 million VND, illegally benefiting 28.9 million VND. At court, the defendant Tai stated that he did not personally benefit. The money the inspectors received in bribes was divided among them, and the defendant used it for the company.

According to the indictment, during the inspection process, the defendants at Inspection Center 50-17D ignored the failures in the smoke measurement, spring inspection, vehicle body, lights, trusses, load capacity, etc. stages to issue inspection certificates in violation of regulations. In addition, before the policy of accepting bribes to ignore errors was adopted, the inspectors also agreed that if a vehicle owner offered bribes to ignore errors, the inspectors would accept them and share with the company. From October 1, 2022 to December 19, 2022, the amount of money that Inspection Center 50-17D received was nearly 270 million VND.

THANH CHUNG - CHI THACH

Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/xet-xu-dai-an-cuc-dang-kiem-viet-nam-giam-doc-trung-tam-dang-kiem-khai-nhan-hoi-lo-nhung-khong-huong-loi-post751869.html