At the press conference on the situation and results of public security work in 2023 on the afternoon of December 27, Major General Nguyen Van Thanh, Deputy Director of the Department of Economic Crime Investigation Police (C03), Ministry of Public Security, informed about the investigation process of phase 2, in the case that occurred at Van Thinh Phat Group, SCB Bank and related units.
Major General Nguyen Van Thanh, Deputy Director of the Department of Economic Crime Investigation Police (C03), Ministry of Public Security, informed at the press conference (Photo: Hai Nam).
According to Major General Thanh, this is a big case, with a large number of defendants and people involved. Therefore, the investigation agency has separated the case to investigate in 2 phases.
In phase 2, the Ministry of Public Security focused on investigating two main crimes: Fraudulent appropriation of assets related to bonds and Money laundering of Ms. Truong My Lan (Chairman of Van Thinh Phat Group).
Regarding the fraudulent bond issuance, the leader of Department C03 said that the initial investigation determined that Ms. Truong My Lan had issued 25 bond packages through 4 enterprises, collecting about 30,000 billion VND.
Ms. Truong My Lan (Photo: VTP).
"The difficulty now is identifying the victims (investors who bought bonds - PV)," Major General Thanh said.
The Deputy Director suggested that investors who bought bonds from Ms. Lan and her accomplices should go to the local police where the victims registered their addresses on the bonds to report.
Regarding money laundering, Major General Thanh said that the law clearly stipulates acts of money laundering.
The leader of Department C03 gave an example of a criminal using money obtained from crime for investment, banking transactions, and even sponsorship and charity.
In addition, Major General Thanh said that the money that Ms. Truong My Lan withdrew through banking activities was invested by this defendant, buying large real estate properties nationwide and transferring a part abroad.
In phase 1, the Ministry of Public Security completed the investigation and transferred the case file to the Supreme People's Procuracy.
The prosecution agency then issued an indictment against Ms. Truong My Lan and 85 other defendants. Ms. Truong My Lan was prosecuted for the crimes of embezzlement, bribery and violation of lending regulations in the operations of credit institutions.
The Supreme People's Procuracy's indictment concluded that from 2012 to October 2022, Ms. Truong My Lan acquired and held from 85% to 91.5% of SCB Bank's shares.
From then on, the defendant became a shareholder with the "power" to direct, operate, and manipulate all activities of SCB Bank, serving his various purposes.
The Chairman of Van Thinh Phat Group and his accomplices were accused of carrying out a series of acts including: Selecting and arranging his trusted personnel to key positions at SCB Bank; establishing a number of units under SCB Bank specializing in lending and disbursing at the request of Truong My Lan; establishing and using thousands of "ghost" companies, hiring many individuals; colluding with individuals who are leaders of many related enterprises to commit crimes; Colluding with many valuation companies to inflate the value of collateral assets; creating a very large number of fake loan applications to withdraw money from SCB Bank; planning to withdraw money, "cut off" the cash flow after disbursement; selling bad debts, selling deferred credit loans to reduce outstanding credit balances, reduce bad debts, to conceal violations; bribing and influencing people with positions and powers in state agencies to violate their duties.
Since then, Ms. Lan and her accomplices, in different positions and roles, have committed many crimes of infringement on property, banking operations, and proper operations of State agencies.
In which, the prosecution agency determined that many acts were carried out in the form of organized complicity with sophisticated and cunning tricks, causing especially serious consequences, appropriating and causing damage to especially large sums of money.
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