Reporting to the National Assembly on the work of the sector, Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Court Le Minh Tri and Chief Prosecutor of the Supreme People's Procuracy Nguyen Huy Tien presented many notable figures related to economic and corruption cases, including asset recovery. 788 defendants have overcome the consequences and returned over 638 billion VND of embezzled assets. Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Court Le Minh Tri said that from October 1, 2023 to the end of September 2024, courts at all levels accepted 5,514 economic, corruption and position cases with 12,948 defendants at first instance; tried 4,844 cases with 10,376 defendants. Of these, the courts accepted 1,154 cases at first instance with 3,201 defendants for corruption crimes, and tried 917 cases with 2,418 defendants. Compared to the previous year, the number of corruption cases handled increased by 407 with 1,401 defendants; the number of cases tried increased by 355 with 1,211 defendants. The courts sentenced 13 defendants to life imprisonment; 93 defendants to imprisonment from 15 years to 20 years; 366 defendants to imprisonment from 7 years to 15 years; 566 defendants to imprisonment from 3 years to 7 years; 712 defendants to imprisonment from 3 years or less; and the rest were other penalties. The courts also handled 425 cases under appeal with 846 defendants for corruption crimes; tried 300 cases with 586 defendants. Courts at all levels focused on deciding to confiscate assets obtained from crimes, applying measures to seize assets, judicial measures and additional penalties to ensure the recovery of State assets that had been appropriated or damaged. Specifically, the Courts at all levels have announced the recovery of money and assets in 201 cases with 1,011 defendants in economic, corruption and position cases with the amount of money and assets of over 16,297 billion VND; there are 152 cases with 788 defendants who have overcome the consequences and returned the misappropriated assets of over 638 billion VND... Some cases with high asset recovery: Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Procuracy Nguyen Huy Tien said that the Procuracy has exercised the right to prosecute and supervise the settlement of 3,412 sources of information on crimes of corruption, position and economy; has resolved and handled 2,826 sources of information, of which the Investigation Agency has decided to prosecute 1,563 cases. The Investigation Agency of the Supreme People's Procuracy has accepted to investigate 78 cases/146 defendants for corruption and position crimes occurring in judicial activities. At the same time, the prosecution and investigation authorities exercised the right to prosecute and investigate 7,830 cases/16,914 defendants; the investigation agency resolved 5,911 cases/12,628 defendants... Also during this period, through the enforcement of civil judgments, more than VND 117,343 billion (reaching a rate of 51.5%) was recovered; during the investigation, prosecution and trial, security measures were applied to recover more than VND 26,215 billion. In addition, the prosecution agencies also temporarily detained, seized, and temporarily suspended transactions of many other assets such as: 2,876 real estates; more than 2.2 billion shares; 7.8 million USD; 10 million Japanese Yen; 63,900 Euros; 1,080 taels of gold; 36 laptops; 43 cars; 2 oil tankers; 1,288,406 liters of DO oil; 227,204 liters of gasoline; 1 pair of ivory tusks; 2 diamond rings; 1 yacht;... The Supreme People's Procuracy has closely coordinated with the Investigation Agency in applying measures to recover assets in corruption and economic cases. In particular, some high-profile asset recovery cases such as the Tan Hoang Minh case have completed the execution of more than 8,000 billion VND. In the case of asset embezzlement at Van Thinh Phat Group and SCB Bank, the defendants voluntarily compensated the consequences with an amount of 5,169 billion VND. Regarding the case of Violations of regulations on management and use of state assets causing loss and waste occurring at Xuyen Viet Oil Company and several provinces and cities, during the search, the Investigation Security Agency temporarily seized 134 savings books with a total amount of VND 1,320 billion... The Supreme People's Procuracy continues to closely coordinate with the Ministry of Public Security and the Supreme People's Court in detecting, prosecuting, investigating, prosecuting, and trying, ensuring strict and lawful handling of major corruption and economic cases.

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