"You cannot use other people's research results to promote your own reputation."
On the afternoon of December 28, the trial of four former officers of the Military Medical Academy and three accomplices who assisted Viet A Company continued with the debate. The representative of the Procuracy presented his views in response to the defense of the lawyers.
Regarding the defense opinion for defendant Ho Anh Son (former Deputy Director of the Military Medical Research Institute, Military Medical Academy) on whether there was an element of profiteering in the case or not, the representative of the Procuracy said that the amount of money the defendant was directly assigned to research the topic was 2.8 billion VND.
After that, defendant Son asked many scientists to stand in their names but did not conduct research but transferred money to the defendant.
When the money was transferred, the defendant used it for many different purposes, including personal purposes.
The fraudulent behavior of the former Deputy Director of the Military Medical Research Institute in the first acceptance of the project was the prerequisite for Viet A to be licensed by the Ministry of Health for the test kit.
At the same time, during the licensing process, the defendant also helped Viet A by signing the handover minutes.
In addition, during the process related to test kit products, the defendant also took advantage of his position and authority to buy and sell cotton swabs and environmental tubes.
"The above actions show that the defendant's role in the case was not to assist but to practice," the representative of the Procuracy assessed.
Defendant Ho Anh Son at the trial on December 28 (Photo: Nam Anh).
Regarding Mr. Ho Anh Son asking himself the question "what to do?", the representative of the Procuracy said that as a manager, the defendant must be responsible for considering and evaluating whether he can do it himself or not when proposing a research topic for the test kit.
Therefore, when accepting the promise from the Ministry of Science and Technology to have a product within one month, the defendant himself must be responsible for whether or not he can fulfill this promise.
The prosecutor emphasized that the acceptance here was not just words but also the use of a large amount of budget money, the defendant must be responsible but at that time he knew that Viet A was researching the test kit.
The defendants then agreed with each other which one was better to use, whichever one came first to use.
"So the defendants' purpose of profiteering is very clear, whether they researched or not, they took more than 18 billion VND from the State budget. I think that as a scientist, the defendant must respect himself and respect the scientific products of others. He cannot consider the research results of Ms. Thuy (Ho Thi Thanh Thuy, Phan Quoc Viet's wife) as his own research results to polish his name, profit and comment that this is his product," said the representative of the Procuracy.
Lawyers defending the defendants (Photo: Nguyen Hai).
Military investigation and trial is in accordance with regulations
The representative of the People's Procuracy said that Viet A had registered the product very early but it was not accepted. Therefore, in order to be able to circulate and license the product, the company had to return to accept the product in phase 1.
Thus, it is impossible to accept the defendant Phan Quoc Viet's statement that the Military Medical Academy needs Viet A or the value of Viet A here.
Defendant Viet himself stated to the investigation agency that if a business wanted to register on its own, it would take a lot of time. This is the reason why defendant Viet, Trinh Thanh Hung (former Deputy Director of the Department of Science and Technology of Economic and Technical Sectors, Ministry of Science and Technology) had to participate in the project with the Military Medical Academy even though the defendants saw that Viet A had enough capacity to research and produce.
Regarding the opinions of the lawyers and defendants that "the defendants committed the crime in a case beyond the urgent situation, in epidemic prevention there was no other choice, obeying the orders of superiors...", the People's Procuracy said that the purchase and sale of test kits between Viet A Company and the Military Medical Academy to serve the epidemic prevention took place with many contracts, over a long period of time, so it was no longer an urgent situation.
The representative of the Procuracy responded to the defense lawyers' viewpoints (Photo: Nguyen Hai).
Regarding the opinions of the lawyers and defendants on the request to merge the Viet A case for trial by military court, separating the case is disadvantageous for the defendants, the representative of the People's Procuracy responded, the defendants caused property damage to the army and the authority to resolve the case belongs to the military prosecution agencies, so the army's investigation, prosecution and trial of the defendants is in accordance with the law.
Regarding the issue of the lawyers and defendants claiming that the defendants committed crimes due to urgent requirements in epidemic prevention work, the representative of the People's Procuracy responded: Defendant Trinh Thanh Hung brought Viet A to participate in the research project when he knew that this company was about to have a test kit product.
The defendants then agreed to use Viet A's kit for testing, knowing that the product was not the result of research by the Military Medical Academy, but still accepted phase one and the project.
Defendant Viet participated in the project with the aim of quickly obtaining an illegal license.
Therefore, the Procuracy assessed that there was no basis to accept the defendants' request to consider reducing the sentence for the defendants due to the urgent need to prevent the epidemic.
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