Former Director of Food Safety Department Nguyen Thanh Phong
On May 13, the Ministry of Public Security's Investigation Police Agency announced that it had issued a decision to prosecute and search warrants for five officials of the Food Safety Department, Ministry of Health, for accepting bribes.
Based on the collected documents and evidence, the Department of Investigation Police on Corruption, Economic Crimes, and Smuggling has prosecuted and issued a search warrant for Mr. Nguyen Thanh Phong - former Director of the Department of Food Safety, Ministry of Health; Dinh Quang Minh - Director of the Center for Application and Training of Food Safety, Nguyen Thi Minh Hai - Deputy Director of the Center for Application and Training of Food Safety, Le Thi Hien - Center specialist and Cao Van Trung, Deputy Head of the Poisoning Monitoring Department.
These people were all prosecuted for bribery. The measure of preventing Nguyen Thi Minh Hai from leaving her place of residence was applied; the remaining four defendants were arrested and detained.
The Ministry of Public Security's investigation police agency has clarified the violations of the Food Safety Department's officers in the appraisal and post-inspection.
Including the act of granting 4 certificates of food safety facilities meeting good manufacturing practice requirements (GMP certificates) to MediPhar Factory and Mediusa Factory, and granting 20 certificates of product registration acceptance to a group of 9 companies of Nguyen Nang Manh.
Currently, the authorities are consolidating documents and evidence to clarify the criminal acts of the defendants and expand the investigation of the case.
Production and trade of fake functional foods from the stage of importing raw materials to production, packaging...
Previously, on April 26, the Ministry of Public Security's Investigation Police Agency announced that it had initiated a case of manufacturing and trading in counterfeit food, food additives, and violating accounting regulations causing serious consequences.
The police investigation agency also prosecuted the accused, issued arrest warrants, and search warrants for 5 people including:
- Nguyen Nang Manh (Director of MegaPhaco Company, Chairman of the Board of Directors of MEDIUSA Pharmaceutical Joint Stock Company, headquartered in Hoang Mai district, Hanoi);
- Do Manh Hoang (Director of MediPhar Company);
- Khuc Minh Vu (Director of Viet Duc Company);
- Pham Thi Huong (accountant in charge of 4 companies MediPhar, MEDIUSA, MegaLife, Hung Phuong);
- Le Thi Toan (treasurer of 6 companies MediPhar, MEDIUSA, MegaLife, Hung Phuong, MegaPhaco, Viet Duc).
According to the investigation, since 2016, Nguyen Nang Manh and his accomplices have established and operated many companies to legalize the production and trade of fake functional foods, from the stage of importing raw materials to production, packaging, and consumption on the market.
This group uses two accounting systems (one for internal accounting and one for tax declaration and payment) to reduce the amount of tax payable, causing tax losses to the State.
Police determined that the suspects used the trick of printing on the packaging and labels of products as imported from the US, Europe... but in reality, they were mainly imported from China and bought illegally on the market.
Regarding quality indicators, many components only achieved less than 30% of the announced standards. When suspected of being investigated, the suspects dispersed and destroyed raw materials and products, and closed the factory.
The consumers that this group aims to sell products to are mainly focused on the elderly and children.
Searching warehouses and a number of business establishments, the Ministry of Public Security seized an exceptionally large quantity of functional foods, diverse in types, widely distributed throughout the country, with a total of about 100 tons of functional foods seized.
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