On the afternoon of November 25, the representative of the High-level People's Procuracy in Ho Chi Minh City continued to respond to the defense of the defendant and the lawyers in the appeal hearing of the first phase of the case that occurred at Van Thinh Phat Group, Saigon Commercial Joint Stock Bank (SCB) and related units and organizations.
During the trial, the People's Procuracy changed its opinion and proposed to further reduce the sentence for defendant Truong Khanh Hoang, former acting General Director of SCB. Specifically, the proposed sentence was reduced from 18 years (first instance verdict) to 15 - 16 years in prison for the crime of embezzlement of property. Previously, on November 15, the People's Procuracy proposed to reduce the sentence for the defendant from 18 years to 16 - 17 years in prison.
The reason for the sentence adjustment was that defendant Hoang had new mitigating circumstances, including paying 1.2 billion VND to remedy the consequences and actively participating in charity work.
Defendant Truong Khanh Hoang.
According to the case, Truong Khanh Hoang worked at SCB Bank from 2019 to 2022, holding the positions of Deputy General Director in charge of the Re-appraisal Division; Acting General Director of SCB Bank (from May 15, 2021 to August 12, 2022).
During his time working at SCB Bank, Truong Khanh Hoang participated in many meetings of SCB Bank's headquarters leadership as summoned by Truong My Lan, in which Truong My Lan directed the lending, the amount of money to be disbursed and the time of disbursement, what the collateral was, and who to disburse the money to. Truong My Lan also directly or directed relatives and employees such as Nguyen Phuong Anh, Truong Hue Van, Ngo Thanh Nha, Truong Vincent Kinh... to call Hoang to direct with the same content as in the meeting with headquarters leaders.
After receiving information from Lan, Hoang discussed with Tran Thi My Dung to direct and assign specialized departments (re-appraisal, credit approval, etc.) to carry out the loan application and submit it to Vo Tan Hoang Van, General Director of SCB Bank for approval. After that, the leaders at the headquarters level will deploy the loan plan, deploy detailed implementation steps for subordinates to complete the application and disbursement procedures in time as set by Truong My Lan, and then legalize the collateral documents.
For Truong My Lan's loans, there is no loan inspection department. This is done by Tran Thi My Dung, who directs her subordinates to monitor. When the loan is due, they coordinate with Van Thinh Phat group to carry out procedures and plans to pay the principal, interest or settle the loan.
From September 10, 2019 to December 1, 2021, Truong Khanh Hoang, in his roles as Deputy General Director, member of the Headquarters Business and Investment Council, Deputy General Director authorized by the General Director, signed 253 re-evaluation reports, 349 minutes of meetings of the Headquarters Business and Investment Council, 39 Reports of the General Director submitted to the Board of Directors to agree to lend 386 loans to 270 customers who are individuals and legal entities belonging to Truong My Lan's Van Thinh Phat ecosystem at SCB Bank.
Although he knew that the loans of Truong My Lan and Van Thinh Phat Group were all illegal, because he was paid a very high salary of 130 million to 500 million VND/month, and on holidays or Tet, he was also given many bonuses by Truong My Lan, totaling about 5 billion VND, Truong Khanh Hoang committed the above violations, actively helping Truong My Lan to appropriate more than 182,000 billion VND of SCB.
Source: https://vtcnews.vn/nop-1-2-ty-dong-khac-phuc-cuu-quyen-tong-giam-doc-scb-duoc-de-nghi-giam-an-ar909572.html
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