Former abbot of Vinh Long Pagoda for life for fraud of 68 billion: Proposal to cancel the Labor Medal

On July 25, Mr. Le Quang Trung - Vice Chairman of Vinh Long Provincial People's Committee signed a report to submit to the Prime Minister on the proposal to cancel the decisions on awarding the Second-class and Third-class Labor Medals for 2 volumes. bodies and 2 individuals in this province.

The People's Procuracy of Vinh Long province has issued an indictment against Pham Van Cung and Nguyen Tuan Si (54 years old, living in Ward 2, Vinh Long City) with the crime of "fraudulent appropriation of property". The other defendant in the case, Le Nguyen Khoa (36 years old, living in Ninh Kieu district, Can Tho city) has now fled and is wanted by Vinh Long Provincial Police.

According to the indictment, Pham Van Cung has been a monk at Phuoc Quang pagoda (Tam Binh town, Tam Binh district, Vinh Long province) since 2005 and took the legal name Thich Phuoc Ngoc. In September 2008, Cung was appointed as the abbot of Phuoc Quang Pagoda.

During his work at Phuoc Quang Pagoda, Cung organized many real or unreal programs and events to create prestige for himself. Cung also introduced himself to many senior leaders at the central government, made videos about the charity activities of the temple and the center to post on social networks to promote and build trust for many people.

Specifically, in 2015, Cung used tricks such as building temples, building an orphanage center and Buddha statues, even hiring porters in Lang Son to use foreign phone numbers to notify Buddhists that the Palace was missing. debt, kidnapped and taken to China, not allowed to return to Vietnam...

With the above tricks, Cung cheated a businesswoman living in Ho Chi Minh City with an amount of more than 18.5 billion VND. When discovered, Cung partially refunded and appropriated more than 11.6 billion VND from the victim.

In 2017, Cung continued to make up the story that he and the orphans at the orphanage center were kidnapped and locked in a truck for ransom. Cung assigned Khoa to compose a message, set up a fake scene of the kidnapping and send it to a Buddhist woman in Hanoi to trick this person into transferring money to Cung's account, and at the same time bring cash to Khoa and his driver. The total amount is more than 26 billion VND.

In addition, Cung also blasted himself as "a secret agent, intelligence of the Government often going abroad to operate in very sensitive religious fields; having acquaintances with many high-ranking officials at the central level, the Government and the Government. Government, Ministry of Foreign Affairs" and promised to help a British overseas Vietnamese return home to live legally. With this trick, Cung cheated a woman of more than 13 billion dong.

With the role of mastermind and with the help of Le Nguyen Khoa and Nguyen Tuan Si, Pham Van Cung successfully defrauded the 4 victims with a total amount of nearly 68 billion VND. The amount of money fraud Cung divided among his accomplices, used to pay off debts and personal expenses.

Recently, the People's Committee of Vinh Long province asked the Prime Minister to submit to the President to cancel the decision to award the Third-class Labor Medal to Pham Van Cung, formerly known as Venerable Thich Phuoc Ngoc, for committing a crime. fraudulently appropriating property, was sentenced to life in prison by the court.

In addition, the People's Committee of Vinh Long province also proposed to cancel the decision to award the Second-class Labor Medal to Mr. Le Dong Nhac, Chairman of the Red Cross Association of Vinh Long province, due to mistakes in the process of leadership and administration. from 2012 to the first quarter of 2019 with the form of disciplinary dismissal.

On July 25, Mr. Le Quang Trung - Vice Chairman of Vinh Long Provincial People's Committee signed a report to submit to the Prime Minister on the proposal to cancel the decisions on awarding the Second-class and Third-class Labor Medals for 2 volumes. bodies and 2 individuals in this province.

The reason Vinh Long province proposed to cancel the commendation decisions is because the above-mentioned groups and individuals have many violations and violations. The defendants' actions have infringed on the property rights protected by law.

Defendant Cung is a person from Taoism, he should have cultivated morality, done good deeds, avoided evil, and contributed to propagating and educating people to live a good life. However, the accused took advantage of the victim's trust to appropriate property, so it is necessary to have a strict sentence to handle the accused to prevent and deter the society.

Regarding the new development of the case, currently, the victims of Bui Thanh Nhan are proposing to settle for 3 plots of Cung's land to overcome the consequences. In addition, victim Tran Thi Anh Hong was scammed 7 billion, victim Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son was scammed 5 billion ... are petitioning to be remedied in phase 2 of the case.

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