Former Director of Thu Duc City Hospital proposed for prosecution in connection with Viet A

On January 23, the Ho Chi Minh City Police Department issued a supplementary investigation conclusion on the case of Bidding Violations causing serious consequences, Bribery and Receiving Bribery occurring at Thu Duc City Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet A Technology Joint Stock Company (Viet A Company), Nam Phong Construction Design Trading and Service Company Limited (Nam Phong Company).

The Ho Chi Minh City Police Department proposed to prosecute the following defendants: Nguyen Minh Quan, former Director of Thu Duc City Hospital, for violating bidding regulations causing serious consequences; Pham Vu Phong, Director of Nam Phong Company, for violating bidding regulations causing serious consequences and giving bribes.

Defendant Nguyen Minh Quan at the trial in December 2023.

Truong Thi Bao Tran, medical equipment and supplies staff, Thu Duc City Hospital, for the crime of Violating bidding regulations causing serious consequences and Receiving bribes; Mai Le Quyen, Head of the Microbiology Department, Thu Duc City Hospital, for the crime of Receiving bribes.

Defendant Nguyen Lan Anh, former Deputy Director of Thu Duc City Hospital, for the crime of Violating bidding regulations causing serious consequences.

According to the investigation conclusion, on August 20, 2020, Thu Duc City Hospital planned to deploy COVID-19 diagnostic testing, so it sought partners to ensure supplies, test kits, etc. After that, the hospital contacted Viet A Company and the sales staff introduced the test kit.

This employee introduced Phong to sell test kits produced by Viet A Company directly from Nam Phong Company. Quan, as the Director of Thu Duc City Hospital, signed decisions approving the plan to select contractors, Viet A Company and Nam Phong Company, without evaluating the documents; evaluating the contractor's proposal documents, ranking the contractors, etc.

The implementation of bidding documents for Viet A Company and Nam Phong Company was aimed at legalizing documents to pay for the number of test kits supplied by these two companies in advance; without considering the capacity and experience of the contractors... This caused a loss of more than 14.9 billion VND to Thu Duc City Hospital.

The investigation concluded that, although Phong knew that his company was not qualified as a contractor, he still used the legal entity of Nam Phong Company to commit fraud and collude in bidding. He carried out 1 competitive bidding package, 4 shortened designated bidding packages and 33 designated bidding packages to purchase test kits produced by Viet A Company from Nam Phong Company.

Regarding the damage, the maximum price of the test kit produced by Viet A Company (including 5% profit) is 143,461 VND/test kit. Thu Duc City Hospital paid Viet A Company and Nam Phong Company to buy the test kit for more than 24.9 billion VND.

Of which, Thu Duc City Hospital paid more than 640 million VND to Viet A Company and paid 24.3 billion VND to Nam Phong Company (8.9 billion VND left unpaid). The investigation conclusion also showed that individuals at Thu Duc City Hospital did not follow the bidding process correctly, leading to a loss of more than 14.9 billion VND to this Hospital.

The amount of money that Nam Phong Company benefited from selling test kits to Thu Duc City Hospital was more than 10.5 billion VND (not including taxes payable to the state). In order to complete the documents for Thu Duc City Hospital to pay for the test kits, Phong also gave more than 997 million VND in commission to the staff at this hospital.

Specifically, defendant Tran completed the bidding procedure in violation of regulations so that Thu Duc City Hospital could pay for the test kits; Tran received more than VND 997 million in commission from Nam Phong Company and proactively returned the entire amount before being prosecuted.

Defendant Quyen decided to choose the Viet A Company's test kit for Thu Duc City Hospital to bid, leading to losses. Quyen received 100 million VND in "compensation" from an employee of Viet A Company through her husband's account.

Defendant Lan Anh admitted that because she trusted the bidding documents that had been approved by defendant Quan; trusted that the staff would follow the correct procedures, she signed a contract with Nam Phong Company to buy test kits, causing damage to Thu Duc City Hospital.

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