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Thứ Năm, 7 tháng 7, 2011

Jailed official gets 7 more years for power abuse

Bui Tien Dung at court yesterday
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TUOI TRE

Bui Tien Dung, former general director of the Ministry of Transport’s Project Management Unit 18 (PMU18), who is serving 16 years in prison for bribery and other crimes, has been given 7 more years for abusing position and power on duty.

After 9 days of trial, the Hanoi People’s Court yesterday handed down the sentences to Dung and 8 others.

The guilty were Nguyen Vu Nam, former head of the Project Initiation Department No. 6 (PID 6); Nguyen Cong Dung, a former PID 6 expert; Nghiem Phu Son, former deputy head of PID 6; Le Minh Giang, former deputy head of PID 5; Nguyen Huu Minh, former executive director of the Bai Chay 1 (BC1) bid; Nguyen Huu Long, former executive director of the BC3 bid; Tran Duc Hung, chief of the consulting office for the project; and Do Kim Quy, a former deputy general director of PMU 18.

Except Quy, who was charged with “using assets illegally acquired by others,” the other defendants were charged with embezzlement. 

The court gave 2 years of suspended imprisonment to Quy, 9 years in prison for Nam, 7 years for Son, 6 years for Nguyen Cong Dung and Giang each, 5 years for Long, 4 years for Minh, and 3 years for Hung.
Bui Tien Dung and his accomplices were found guilty of siphoning off nearly VND3.5 billion (US$165,500) from the ODA-funded Bai Chay Bridge in Quang Ninh Province.
According to the indictment by the Supreme People’s Procuracy, in 1998, PMU18, then led by Dung, was assigned to develop the bridge project. 

Dung and his accomplices then signed false consulting agreements and prepared false payrolls of consulting engineers to pocket $165,500 when carrying out that project from March 2003 to February 2007.
Dung used VND500 million ($24,300) from the amount as a “send-off gift” to Quy who was about to retire and Quy accepted the money though he knew it was illegal.

Quy handed over the VND500 million to the police after they began investigating Dung’s wrongdoings.
In November 2007, Dung was sentenced to 13 years in prison for gambling and bribery.

In August 2010 he was given an additional three years for “deliberately acting against the State’s economic management regulations, causing serious consequences.”

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