On the afternoon of November 27, Ha Tinh Provincial Police said that the unit had exposed the tricks of 3 subjects who took advantage of the press to profit 1 billion VND per month.
According to the Investigation Police Agency, recently, in Ha Tinh province and some other provinces and cities, there have been groups of people who have taken advantage of the press to commit crimes, causing public outrage. Some have claimed to be reporters from press agencies (mainly magazines belonging to social organizations, socio-professional organizations) to harass agencies, businesses, and localities.
In Ha Tinh province, frustrated by this situation, representatives of the provincial business community recently sent a petition to Colonel Nguyen Hong Phong, Director of the Provincial Police, requesting that the authorities intervene and take measures to handle and rectify the situation.
Colonel Nguyen Hong Phong, Director of Ha Tinh Provincial Police, has directed professional units to coordinate with the Department of Information and Communications and other sectors to focus on many measures to prevent and stop such as calling to remind, administratively handling, and criminally handling some subjects for general deterrence and prevention.
The Board of Directors of Ha Tinh Provincial Police has assigned the Investigation Police Agency to set up a special project to combat a group of subjects with complex activities, showing disregard for the law, and showing signs of committing crimes.
Under the close direction of the Director of Ha Tinh Provincial Police, the Criminal Police Department used professional measures, along with information provided by the people. On November 27, the Provincial Police Investigation Agency initiated a case, prosecuting 3 defendants including: Le Danh Tao (57 years old, residing in Tran Phu ward, Ha Tinh city, the ringleader), Ho Thi Hai (41 years old, Director of Healthy Living and Law Media Company Limited, wife of Le Danh Tao) and Ho Kim Cuong (35 years old, younger brother of Ho Thi Hai) for the crime of "Taking advantage of influence over people with positions and powers for personal gain".
Colonel Nguyen Hong Phong said that recently in the province, there have been many people who have made fake reporter and journalist cards to deceive the traffic police and ask for forgiveness for violations. There are people who use fake cards and impersonate press agencies to "work" for the purpose of profiteering. More seriously, there are cases of using fake journalist cards to defraud and blackmail businesses.
According to Colonel Nguyen Hong Phong, taking advantage of the press for personal gain is an act that violates ethics and the law. This act has seriously affected the professional ethics and reputation of genuine journalists.
For those who used to be reporters and journalists, they understand the law and professional ethics better than anyone else, but for personal gain, they use many tricks to profit and extort property, so they must be strictly dealt with according to the law, for prevention and general education.
The Director of Ha Tinh Provincial Police also hopes for the drastic and synchronous participation of agencies and organizations, contributing to rectifying and limiting the situation of taking advantage of the press for personal gain.
It is known that Le Danh Tao used to be a journalist and contributor to several newspapers and magazines. During his career, he knew many traffic police and traffic inspectors in various provinces and cities, and also knew several long-distance freight transport companies.
Discovering that many drivers often commit administrative violations in the field of road traffic, Tao asked them to contribute from 6 to 8 million VND/month/vehicle to be "protected". The subjects committed that as long as it was "Tao's vehicle", the authorities would ignore it or if it was stopped or checked, Tao would directly call to intervene.
At the same time, Tao and his accomplices directly raised the issue with the traffic police and traffic inspectors, asking for favorable conditions, to ignore violations, or to lightly handle violations for drivers who had paid the "law" fee.
If not given favorable conditions, these subjects threaten to write defamatory and distorted articles; find every way to discover violations in the work of the traffic police force, thereby threatening and controlling them.
To conceal their crimes, this group established businesses and transport cooperatives, legalizing the "legal" amount that drivers must pay monthly as cooperative fees...
Police determined that Tao was the ringleader in this ring, while his wife and sister-in-law played supporting roles. With the above-mentioned tricks, the group illegally profited 1 billion VND per month.
The case is under investigation and expansion.
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