On May 16, the Ho Chi Minh City People's Court announced the verdict in the first instance trial of defendants Nguyen Quoc Dung (41 years old - a former officer of a professional department of the Ho Chi Minh City Police); Nguyen Anh Tuan (29 years old - a former police officer in District 5, Ho Chi Minh City) and Ho Ngoc Tai (33 years old - the mastermind) for robbery under Clause 4, Article 168 of the Penal Code.
Defendant Ho Ngoc Tai at the trial. (Photo: Hoang Tho)
The panel sentenced the defendants: Ho Ngoc Tai, Tran Ngoc Hoang (39 years old, both living in Da Nang City) to life in prison; Nguyen Quoc Dung to 17 years in prison, Nguyen Anh Tuan to 12 years in prison; Truong Chi Hai to 18 years in prison; Mai Xuan Phot (born in 1992, living in Da Nang City) to 16 years in prison; Trinh Tuan Anh (born in 1985, living in Ho Chi Minh City) to 19 years in prison;
Nguyen Van Duc (born in 1996, residing in Dak Lak) 16 years in prison; Bui Quang Chung (born in 1996, residing in Ho Chi Minh City) 15 years in prison; Pham Van Hung (born in 1994, residing in Binh Thuan ) 14 years and 6 months in prison; Pham Van Thanh (born in 1993, residing in Binh Thuan) 14 years in prison; Nguyen Chi Thanh (born in 1998, residing in Binh Thuan) 13 years in prison; Pham Ho Bao Duy (born in 1991, residing in Ho Chi Minh City) 12 years in prison; 3 defendants Duong Khai An (born in 1995, residing in Ho Chi Minh City), Chung Tran Phuong Duy (born in 1987, residing in Ho Chi Minh City), Pham Hoang Viet (born in 1991, residing in Ho Chi Minh City) each sentenced to 9 years in prison.
The panel of judges believes that the defendants Tai and Hoang have the highest roles, with Tai having the leading role and Hoang having the commanding role.
According to the indictment, during the process of investing and trading in virtual currency, Ho Ngoc Tai and Tran Ngoc Hoang (39 years old, both living in Da Nang City) met Le Duc Nguyen (34 years old, living in Thu Duc City).
In 2018, after listening to Nguyen's advice, Tai sold about 1,000 bitcoins equivalent to 100 billion VND to trade cryptocurrencies such as Aureus, ifans... on international cryptocurrency exchanges and lost all his investment.
Thinking that Nguyen had deceived him, Tai asked Hoang to help him find the victim and force him to return the lost cryptocurrency. Tai and Hoang asked other defendants to find Nguyen's place of residence, install a GPS tracker on his car, and planned to approach the victim.
On May 17, 2020, Tai and Hoang and their accomplices used a car to cause a collision, block Nguyen's car, attack, threaten, control, and intimidate Nguyen and his wife and children to appropriate many types of cryptocurrencies. According to the transaction value on the Binance exchange at 3:00 p.m. on May 17, 2020, the amount of cryptocurrencies that were appropriated from Nguyen was converted to 168 bitcoins, equivalent to more than 37 billion VND.
On June 23, 2020, the Ministry of Public Security's Investigation Police Agency initiated a case, then prosecuted and detained 16 defendants related to the case.
In the case, two former police officers were prosecuted for robbery, Nguyen Quoc Dung and Nguyen Anh Tuan.
According to the indictment, Tai and Hoang persuaded and hired a group of people, including Truong Chi Hai, to find Nguyen and demand money. Truong Chi Hai was friends with Dung and Tuan. When Tai and Hoang asked Hai to find Nguyen, Hai asked Dung to help.
Dung was the one who advised on how to create the car collision, directly assigned and directed a number of other defendants to drive a car into Nguyen's car to threaten, intimidate, control, and appropriate Nguyen's property. Dung received 412 million VND.
As for Nguyen Anh Tuan, the indictment determined that Nguyen Anh Tuan committed the crime as an accomplice, driving his car to take Hai and Tuan Anh to the highway. On the way, Hai clearly told Tuan that he was going to stop Nguyen's car to collect a debt.
Tuan is a police officer, but still agreed to take Hai and his accomplices along. Tuan was present at the scene, witnessed his accomplices blocking the car, restraining Nguyen, and then taking his accomplices home. On the way back, Tuan clearly heard Hai on the phone telling Tai to remove the camera on Nguyen's car to avoid having the images saved, and then Hai gave him 50 million VND.
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