Violations at Dai Ninh project and the story of bribes for inspectors

According to the indictment, the proposal, which was subsequently approved by government leaders, to forward the petition of Saigon Dai Ninh Company (SGĐN) along with the directive for the Government Inspectorate to investigate and resolve the matter as requested, and to benefit Mr. Nguyen Cao Tri (General Director of SGĐN Company), was illegal and served as a premise for a series of violations in the Government Inspectorate's establishment of a working group to adjust and amend the inspection conclusions, allowing the Dai Ninh project to be extended and its progress delayed illegally.

The allegations state that in March 2021, after the inspection and verification plan was approved by Mr. Tran Van Minh (then Deputy Chief Inspector of the Government Inspectorate), Mr. Le Quoc Khanh (former Deputy Director of the Department of Inspection and Complaint Resolution under Department II, Government Inspectorate) met with Mr. Hoang Van Xuan and Mr. Nguyen Nho Dinh (both former inspectors of Department II) to disseminate the plan and convey Mr. Tran Van Minh's instructions to consider and facilitate the extension of the Dai Ninh project for SGDN Company.

On March 15, 2021, at the headquarters of the Lam Dong Provincial Inspectorate, a working group consisting of Mr. Le Quoc Khanh, Mr. Hoang Van Xuan, and Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Anh (former inspectors of Department II) met with representatives of SGDN Company. At that time, the working group requested the company to clarify several points of contention and provide additional documents to support the inspection, verification, and proof of financial capacity for consideration of project extension.

Following the meeting on March 15, 2021, Mr. Nguyen Cao Tri met with Mr. Anh and gave him an envelope containing 100 million VND in Mr. Anh's office, asking him to look after and help Dai Ninh Company get its project extended.

That afternoon, Mr. Tri went to a hotel in Da Lat to meet with Mr. Hoang Van Xuan to discuss and finalize the content and sign the minutes of the meeting. Afterwards, Mr. Tri met privately with Mr. Le Quoc Khanh to ask him to pay attention to and provide support for SGDN Company.

Mr. Tri gave Mr. Khanh a gift bag containing 500 million VND and asked Mr. Khanh to give Mr. Dinh and Mr. Xuan an envelope containing 100 million VND. Later, the former Deputy Director returned the envelope containing 100 million VND to Mr. Xuan and gave Mr. Dinh 50 million VND from the money Mr. Tri had given, clearly stating, "This is a gift from Tri."

When the task force went to Ho Chi Minh City to work and collect documents, on the evening of March 23, 2021, Mr. Tri contacted Mr. Khanh and invited him to dinner at a hotel in District 1 (Ho Chi Minh City) to provide documents proving his financial capacity as instructed by Mr. Khanh.

According to Mr. Tri's testimony, at this meeting, Mr. Tri gave Mr. Khanh an envelope containing 200 million VND as a thank you and continued to ask for Mr. Khanh's help. However, Mr. Khanh denied receiving the money.

Mr. Tri also instructed others to deliver supplementary explanatory documents from SGDN Company and an envelope containing 50 million VND to Mr. Hoang Van Xuan at the Government Inspectorate Guest House in District 3, Ho Chi Minh City.

According to the allegations, besides receiving the legalized documents provided by Mr. Nguyen Cao Tri, the Task Force did not check or verify the financial capacity and other violations in the implementation of the project by SGDN Company as stated in Conclusion 929.

Thus, the Task Force failed to properly fulfill its responsibility to inspect and verify, instead colluding and guiding Mr. Nguyen Cao Tri to falsify documents regarding his financial capacity to provide to the Task Force, helping Mr. Tri achieve his goal of illicit gain.

In April 2021, Mr. Tri visited Mr. Tran Van Minh's private residence twice to give him a total of 10 billion VND, continuing to ask Mr. Minh to carry out the procedures to adjust Inspection Conclusion 929 in a way that would allow the restoration of the Dai Ninh project.

Several other individuals involved, during the investigation of the case, were identified as having committed wrongdoing. However, due to the expiration of the investigation period, the investigating agency separated the information and documents related to the wrongdoing of these individuals for further investigation and processing later.

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