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On September 8, the People's Procuracy of Thoi Lai District (Can Tho City) issued an indictment against Truong Chau Huu Danh (39 years old), Nguyen Thanh Nha (41 years old), Doan Kien Giang (36 years old). , Nguyen Phuoc Trung Bao (39 years old) and Le The Thang (39 years old) on charges of abusing democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the state, the legitimate rights and interests of organizations and individuals.
According to the allegation, in March 2020, Truong Chau Huu Danh went to Thoi Thuan B hamlet, Thoi Lai town, Thoi Lai district to meet Nguyen Hoang Trung Kien (locally) and a number of households affected by the "Project" Thoi Lai New Urban Area”, invested by Cadif Can Tho Design Consultancy Joint Stock Company. Truong Chau Huu Danh claims to be a journalist who comes to collect information to write articles to protect the interests of the people. Taking advantage of the time when some people were pressing because they were affected by the project, Truong Chau Huu Danh wrote 32 articles and posted 29 clips on Facebook and Fanpage Truong Chau Huu Danh.
According to the assessment results of the authorities of Can Tho city, the articles and videos made by Truong Chau Huu Danh affect the state management role in the locality, causing confusion, suspicion and instability. ideology and trust among the people, creating instability in society. Truong Chau Huu Danh's behavior also damaged the prestige, honor and dignity of leaders of agencies and socio-political organizations at all levels. Losing people's trust in the leadership of the Party, State and local authorities.
In addition, Truong Chau Huu Danh also wrote and posted on Facebook 49 articles related to organizations and individuals in many other localities, attracting a lot of likes, comments and shares. In addition to independently using personal Facebook to commit violations, in August 2019, Truong Chau Huu Danh and Bao, Nha, Thang, Giang and two others set up the Fanpage "Clean newspaper", the group "Clean Newspaper" ". Trung Bao is the creator of the Fanpage "Clean Press". About a month later, the members suggested changing the name to "Clean Newspaper". The first article of "Clean Newspaper" on the case related to Asanzo Company, in the direction of protecting Asanzo. It was the articles about Asanzo that caused conflicts within the "Clean Newspaper" group. Two members automatically left "Clean Newspaper".
From here, "Clean Newspaper" has 5 members left, of which, Trung Bao and Truong Chau Huu Danh hold the role of administrators, the rest hold the rights of editors. All 5 members have the right to post on "Clean Newspaper". To unify the topic and content of the article posted on the Fanpage, Truong Chau Huu Danh and the members set up chat groups to exchange. In addition, these defendants also set up a group "Cleaning Newspaper", which added one more member as an administrator. Fanpage "Clean newspaper" posted a total of 47 articles, of which 26 were discussed and agreed upon by members before posting. Fanpage "Clean newspaper" published many articles related to hot issues of public interest such as the case of Ho Duy Hai, Ton Duc Thang University, coercion at Gia Trang Quan.
When they heard that Huu Danh was arrested by the Can Tho City Police, the group members automatically left the group. Particularly Thang is the person who directly deletes the Fanpage "Clean Newspaper". According to the indictment, the defendants in the case through the activity of the "Clean newspaper" page received money to do media and advertise for 8 businesses and partners in many different localities, totaling more than 2.8 billion VND. copper. In which, Truong Chau Huu Danh benefited about 300 million; Guaranteed about 410 million; Kien Giang benefits 250 million; Nha 245 million and Thang benefited about 260 million. In addition, Bao also keeps 500 million from a communication contract for a corporation that has not been divided among members of the "Clean newspaper".
Because the investigation time has expired, the investigating agency can only work with 2/8 businesses and individuals involved. The investigating agency affirmed that it will continue to verify and clarify for the remaining businesses, if there are signs of crime, they will prosecute, investigate and handle. For some documents stamped "secret" and "top secret", there are signs of the crime of intentionally disclosing state secrets; crimes of appropriating, trading or destroying state secret objects or documents", due to the complicated nature of the case, the investigating agency was separated to continue verifying and clarifying, if there are grounds, they will prosecute. investigation and handling in another case. The Procuracy alleges that Truong Chau Huu Danh and the defendants in this case took advantage of freedom of speech and press freedom to write, post, video, use unverified and incorrect information. true, negative, one-way to post, publicize on Facebook,
The defendants' behavior aimed to direct public opinion to a subjective sense, to mislead readers, to misunderstand the truth, to create conditions for elements to take advantage of participating in negative comments, incitement or manipulation. A part of the people with erroneous perceptions participates in opposing the Party's lines and guidelines, and the State's policies and laws. The acts committed by the defendants directly infringed upon the interests of the state, affected the role of country management, state management in localities, caused confusion, suspicion, and destabilized the country. regulations on trust among the people, creating instability in society, according to the indictment.