Ho Chi Minh City People's Court on
the afternoon of July 30 sentenced Nguyen Thi Thao Quyen (33 years old, former
General Director of Energy Company, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Green
Energy Petroleum Company) to 3 years in prison for illegally trading and
collecting invoices. State budget. Summary of the previous sentence of 1 year
and 6 months in prison for falsifying seals and documents of the previous
organization, Quyen was sentenced to 4 years and 6 months of imprisonment. For
the same crime, 6 accomplices of Quyen received a prison term of one year (but
granted a suspended sentence) of up to 2 years.
The Panel considers the acts of the
defendants to be particularly serious, infringing on the State economy ... but
they also sincerely declare and remedy the consequences. Particularly Quyen is
seriously ill and has to raise small children so the court considered
mitigation.
According to the indictment, at the
end of 2015, Quyen and his accomplices set up a number of businesses in Saigon
to get legal entities to sell blank value-added (VAT) invoices to usurp the
State's tax.
She bought La Quoc Dan and Le Thanh
Phu 392 VAT invoices and then used the legal entity of nine companies to
produce 1,679 invoices for Green Energy Company and Green Energy Petroleum
Company. In addition, Quyen sold to Tran Ngoc Chau 78 VAT invoices, 22 invoices
sold to other units.
People are responsible for the
money sources to legalize payment procedures through banks, while Quyen
provides a detailed list (data of DO oil, unit price, total value of goods) for
people to use as a basis for export. Invoice blank.
The two sides agreed on the
purchase and sale price of VAT invoice, which is 165 dong per liter of petrol
stated on the invoice and 1.2% of the total value before tax stated on the
invoice. Quyen promised to pay Dan more than VND 4.2 billion but only paid over
VND 2.5 billion.
From mid-2015 to February 2016, Green Energy Company and
Green Energy Petroleum Company exported nearly 26 million liters of D.O oil and
freight, the total amount recorded on 392 VAT invoices was nearly 340 billion
VND. The investigating agency determined that, from January 2015 to December
2015, the two Quyen companies had issued nearly 4,000 VAT invoices worth more
than VND 5,000 billion on invoices for 101 enterprises. In addition, the
Library used to register the birth of a child to get his / her identity card to
go to the procedure to carry out the name of his company. After that, the woman
handed him 10 VAT invoices, required to pre-sign unsigned checks, petrol
trading contracts, goods delivery records ...
At the end of March 2016, during
the investigation, Dan hanged himself to death, so the investigating agency
decided to suspend the suspect. Quyen voluntarily paid 650 million VND to
overcome the consequences.
At the first instance hearing, all
the defendants were released on bail and the Health Fund was so weak that they
had to apply for an absent hearing. In court, the defendants expressed remorse
and pledged to confess their crimes.
Source:
Vnexpress.net