Recently, the online community stirred up about the sentence for a teacher, former director of Hung Nguyen Education Center, Nghe An province, who was sentenced to 5 years in prison for allegedly making many wrong payments worth totally VND45 million ($1,900).
Accordingly, on the morning of April 26, the People’s Court of Hung Nguyen district carried out the first-instance hearing and sentenced Ms. Le Thi Dung (51 years old, living in Hung Nguyen town, Hung Nguyen district) to a 5-year prison sentence for the charge “abusing positions and powers when performing official duties.” Ms. Dung was probed and detained since March 28, 2022.
According to the indictment of the court, from October 1, 2012 to 2017, Ms. Dung was the Secretary of the Party cell, the account holder of the Center for Extended Education of Hung Nguyen district (now the Center for Extended Education of Hung Nguyen district), took advantage of the position and power assigned, made wrong payments many times to appropriate an amount of more than VND48.3 million from the state budget.
VND45 million equal to less than $2,000 and it was wrong spending, not embezzlement. However, the heavy sentence was pronounced, it shows that the so-called Vietnamese justice is very arbitrary.
In another trial, in December 2018, the High People’s Court in Ho Chi Minh City gave former Deputy Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam Dang Thanh Binh to 3 years of suspension for the crime of “lack of responsibility causing serious consequences.” Mr. Binh caused a loss of VND15 trillion ($64 million) to the state. A verdict that makes society stir.
The Vietnamese judicial system is arbitrary from the procuracy, to the courts, and even to the police investigation. In 2015, the National Assembly Standing Committee held a meeting to supervise “The situation of injustice and wrongdoing in the application of the criminal law, criminal procedure and the compensation for damage to the unjust victim in criminal proceedings in accordance with the law” reported that, within 3 years, up to 226 people died in police stations while being detained.
At the hands of the police, corporal punishment led to death, but they did not bear any punishment. The Supreme People’s Court, under the chairmanship of Chief Justice Nguyen Hoa Binh, coerced Ho Duy Hai with evidence investigating police officers bought in the market. And a lot of other injustice cases, abounding and defying public opinion.
Vietnamese courts follow instructions, not criminal procedures. Teacher Le Thi Dung was sentenced to 5 years in prison, because she was a low-profile one.
The court sentenced Mr. Dang Thanh Binh, former Deputy Governor of the State Bank, to a suspended sentence for the crime of causing a loss of VND15 trillion, which is also the way the trial was directed. There are oral orders that affect the court and the court has been perfunctory, they want to acquit, but because the evidence is so obvious, the sentence is suspended.
How many times the Communist state exhorts “judicial reform“, but the Vietnamese judiciary remains the same. It is an unjust justice, it is an instrument of the regime, it is an instrument of power. Such is the nature of this regime, and the judiciary is the instrument of the regime, how can it be reformed?
Being a Vietnamese citizen is accepting unjust cases, accepting the unfair practices of the government. Even international law, the law of other countries, Vietnamese officials do not respect, then the law of Vietnam is in their hands, how can they respect?
The head of the police forces is Mr. To Lam, a great kidnapper. The head of the court is Mr. Nguyen Hoa Binh, a tycoon who commits an unjust crime. So where to get justice for the people? Where can you find a just and disciplined society? Regardless of the judicial reform, if the political system is not reformed, the judiciary is still unjust, and many injust sentences for ordinary people.
Thoibao.de (Translated)
