Recently, many drastic solutions have been implemented by units and functional forces focusing on fighting against crimes and economic violations and corruption.
The authorities have applied many professional measures to detect, arrest and strictly handle violations and crimes related to economics and corruption. Special attention has been paid to the coordination, fight against all types of crimes and handling of crime reports. Thereby, speeding up the verification, investigation, prosecution and trial of corruption, economics and ownership cases occurring in the province.
In addition, through the implementation of functions and tasks, the units issued preventive recommendations to state management agencies in preventing violations and crimes, focusing mainly on the fields of: State asset management, financial management, accounting, tax management... All recommendations were accepted by relevant agencies, contributing positively to the prevention of crimes and economic violations and corruption.
In the first 6 months of 2024, the whole province prosecuted 211 cases/240 defendants for economic and property crimes; an increase of 40 cases (23.4%), 5 defendants (2.13%) compared to the same period in 2023. Of which, the crime of property infringement prosecuted 156 cases/137 defendants, an increase of 17 cases compared to the same period; notably, the crime of "Fraudulent appropriation of property" prosecuted 60 cases/18 defendants, an increase of 22 cases compared to the same period. According to the authorities, the main reason for this increase in crime is the explosive development of social networking sites, leading to subjects taking advantage of it to commit fraud and appropriation of people's property with increasingly sophisticated tricks. The most prominent form of this group of crimes is the form of impersonating police officers, prosecutors, courts, tax officials... to threaten victims and request money transfers to accounts designated by them to serve the investigation; Inviting victims to invest in virtual currency, doing business on e-commerce platforms such as Shopee, Tiktok, Facebook... to receive commissions, then asking victims to transfer large sums of money and then appropriating them. In particular, there is a scam in the form of inviting them to register for races, experience pilot training..., then buying products to support the sponsor, then giving many reasons to ask victims to transfer money.
The authorities have prosecuted 51 cases/99 defendants for the crime of violating economic management order, an increase of 25 cases/24 defendants compared to the same period in 2023; of which the crime of "Lending at high interest rates in civil transactions" prosecuted 17 cases/26 defendants, an increase of 14 cases, 16 defendants. Through opening pawnshops, the subjects lent money to many people in the forms of "loaning at low interest rates", "loaning on installments", "hot loans", "loaning with bowls" with interest rates from 3,000-6,667 VND/million VND/day (equivalent to 109.5%-243.3%/year) to make illegal profits. A typical case is the case of Ngo Van Bang, Bui Thanh Manh, and Bui Van Than who used 943 million VND for 33 people to borrow in the form of "low interest" loans, with interest rates from 3,000-4,000 VND/million VND/day, earning over 491 million VND, in which the interest rate exceeded 20%/year according to the provisions of Article 468 of the Population Code (illegal profits of over 416 million VND).
The group of corruption and position crimes has tended to decrease, the authorities have prosecuted 3 cases/5 defendants, a decrease of 3 cases/13 defendants compared to the same period. Typically, Pham Manh Quan was recruited by the Dong Trieu Town Construction Investment Project Management Board and assigned to work in the technical consulting and supervision department with the task of carrying out investment preparation work. In 2019, when implementing the project to select a unit to prepare bidding documents and evaluate bidding documents for packages under 500 million VND, Quan colluded with employees of Consulting Joint Stock Company 889 to create a "fake" capacity profile of the Company with the aim of making the Company eligible to sign a contract to implement 9 bidding consulting packages. The total amount paid by the Project Management Board for the 9 packages was over 363 million VND. Quan was prosecuted by the authorities for the crime of abusing his position and power while performing official duties.
In the coming time, the forces will continue to drastically and synchronously deploy solutions and measures for professional and social prevention, combined with administrative management measures, promote the application of science and technology, digital transformation, and proactively fight against crime.
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