Violations at Dai Ninh project and the story of bribes for inspectors

According to the indictment, the proposal, which was later approved by the Government leaders to transfer the petition of Saigon Dai Ninh Company (SGDN) along with the direction of the Government Inspectorate to inspect and resolve according to the request and to benefit Mr. Nguyen Cao Tri (General Director of SGDN Company) was illegal, and was the premise for a series of violations in the Government Inspectorate establishing a Working Group to adjust and amend the inspection conclusion, allowing the Dai Ninh project to be extended and delayed illegally.

The accusation clearly stated that in March 2021, after Mr. Tran Van Minh (then Deputy Inspector General of the Government) approved the Inspection and Verification Plan, Mr. Le Quoc Khanh (former Deputy Director of the Department of Inspection and Complaints and Denunciations under Department II, Government Inspectorate) met with Mr. Hoang Van Xuan and Mr. Nguyen Nho Dinh (both former inspectors of Department II) to disseminate the plan and convey Mr. Tran Van Minh's instructions on considering and creating conditions for SGDN Company to extend the implementation of the Dai Ninh project.

On March 15, 2021, at the headquarters of Lam Dong Provincial Inspectorate, the Working Group consisting of Mr. Le Quoc Khanh, Mr. Hoang Van Xuan and Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Anh (former inspectors of Department II) worked with representatives of SGDN Company. At that time, the Working Group requested the company to clarify some of the proposed contents and provide additional documents to serve the request for inspection, verification, and proof of financial capacity to consider extending the project.

After the meeting, on March 15, 2021, Mr. Nguyen Cao Tri met and gave Mr. Anh an envelope containing 100 million VND at Mr. Anh's office, asking him to pay attention and help Dai Ninh Company extend the project.

That afternoon, Mr. Tri went to a hotel in Da Lat to meet Mr. Hoang Van Xuan to discuss, agree on the content and sign the working minutes. After that, Mr. Tri went to meet Mr. Le Quoc Khanh privately to ask Mr. Khanh to pay attention and create favorable conditions to support SGDN Company.

Mr. Tri gave Mr. Khanh a gift bag containing 500 million VND and asked Mr. Khanh to give Mr. Dinh and Xuan an envelope containing 100 million VND. Afterwards, the former Deputy Director gave Mr. Xuan the envelope containing 100 million VND and gave Mr. Dinh 50 million VND from the amount that Mr. Tri had given, clearly stating "this is a gift from Tri".

When the working group went to Ho Chi Minh City to work and collect documents, on the evening of March 23, 2021, Mr. Tri contacted Mr. Khanh to invite him to dinner at a hotel in District 1 (Ho Chi Minh City) to provide documents proving financial capacity according to Mr. Khanh's instructions.

According to Mr. Tri's testimony, at this meeting, Mr. Tri gave Mr. Khanh an envelope containing 200 million VND to thank him and continued to ask for Mr. Khanh's help. However, Mr. Khanh denied taking the money.

Mr. Tri also directed others to deliver additional explanatory documents of SGDN Company and an envelope containing 50 million VND to Mr. Hoang Van Xuan at the Government Inspectorate Guest House in District 3, Ho Chi Minh City.

According to the accusation, in addition to receiving the legalized documents provided by Mr. Nguyen Cao Tri, the Working Group did not check and verify the financial capacity and other violations in the project implementation of SGDN Company as stated in Conclusion 929.

Thus, the Working Group did not properly perform its responsibility of inspection and verification, but colluded, conspired, and guided Mr. Nguyen Cao Tri to legalize documents on financial capacity to provide to the Working Group, helping Mr. Tri achieve the purpose of profiteering.

In April 2021, Mr. Tri went to Mr. Tran Van Minh's private home twice to give Mr. Minh a total of 10 billion VND, and continued to ask Mr. Minh to carry out procedures to adjust Inspection Conclusion 929 in the direction of restoring the Dai Ninh project.

Some other related individuals, during the investigation of the case, identified signs of violations, but because the investigation period had expired, the Investigation Agency separated information and documents related to the violations of these individuals to continue investigating and handling later.

Source: https://vietnamnet.vn/sai-pham-tai-du-an-dai-ninh-va-chuyen-phong-bi-lot-tay-cho-can-bo-thanh-tra-2347915.html