Searching the house of 4 flight attendants, revealing secret messages, experts in dissecting the airline's moves

On the morning of March 16, customs officers checked the luggage suitcases of flight attendants of flight VN10 and discovered more than 11kg of banned substances. On March 20, the police searched the residences of the detainees. However, no more banned substances were detected.

Accordingly, the flight attendants claimed to have received hand-carried goods from France to Vietnam through a colleague working with the same airline.

Through the above crowd, one of the four flight attendants exchanged and agreed on wages and divided a batch of banned substances weighing 11.4kg to Tan Son Nhat airport.

The police worked with the person to introduce the source of goods for 4 flight attendants to bring home.

Initially, all the flight attendants involved could only provide exchange messages, negotiate prices with "deliverers" in France, with the content being paid more than 10 million VND.

The case is still under investigation by the authorities.

In another development, Minister of Finance Ho Duc Phuc, Deputy Head of the Standing Committee of the National Steering Committee 389, recently signed a decision to establish an interdisciplinary working group to combat smuggling by air. This move comes after Ho Chi Minh City Customs discovered more than 11kg of banned substances in the luggage of four Vietnam Airlines flight attendants at Tan Son Nhat airport on March 16.

The working group consists of 8 members. The leader is Mr. Le Thanh Hai - Member and Chief of Standing Office of the National Steering Committee 389 and members of the Economic Security Department (Ministry of Public Security), Anti-smuggling and Investigation Department (General Department of Customs). , Department of Market Management Operations (General Department of Market Management). Mr. Dang Van Dung, Deputy Chief of the Standing Office of the National Steering Committee 389 was appointed as the Deputy Head.

This interdisciplinary working group was assigned 7 tasks. In particular, the team must receive and process information on smuggling, commercial fraud, and illegal transportation of goods through international airports. The team also has the right to coordinate units and forces to coordinate in handling cases, unexpected and complicated situations related to smuggling of goods by air.

In addition, the working group is also required to regularly coordinate closely with news agencies and press to well implement information and propaganda on the situation of smuggling, trade fraud, and illegal transportation of goods. via international airport

This unit operates on a part-time basis. Every 3 months, the working group meets to assess the situation.

Back to the case of 4 flight attendants transporting more than 11kg of banned substances, many people questioned whether Vietnam Airlines - the unit where the 4 flight attendants were working was innocent when its staff was arrested for investigation?

It is not clear how much of a violation of the law the four flight attendants are, but a boat expert said that Vietnam Airlines had a super-high communication handling that made their business not be affected much in the middle of the storm.

Specifically, media expert Nguyen Ngoc Long wrote on his personal page as follows:

"Firstly, a representative of VNA said that they "received information from Customs." They neither confirmed nor denied that their flight attendants carried banned substances. They only confirmed that the Customs side "had such information. ", and they "know that".

Second, the airline immediately "suspended 4 flight attendants to serve the investigation work". Don't suspend for selling banned substances or violating any abc. The court has not yet found guilty.

Third, they affirmed that "violators must be strictly handled". We read carefully in terms of sentences and words, the company said "must be dealt with strictly" instead of "will be dealt with strictly".

Because the case has been investigated by law enforcement agencies, the focal point of handling is not VNA anymore. Should use the word "will" is wrong, and the word "must" is the correct standard. Will, meaning "we'll handle it". And Yes, which means "we believe / recommend that all violations should be handled before the law".

Finally, VNA "commits to closely coordinate with relevant authorities to investigate and clarify the case". But the art of PR lies in this paragraph: "...willing to provide information BUT based on authentic sources".

This is a way to clear the way for refusing to answer when asked about in-depth questions from the press. Like "sorry, brothers and sisters, this issue can't be answered by the VNA side, because we don't have an authentic source from the investigating agency (for example).

If we are a little observant, we will notice very good details. It was the Customs Department that held a press conference but no VNA representative attended. Maybe they were not invited, or were invited but declined to participate. It was an extremely profitable choice because why should I show my face to the press to question me!

The result of this professional processing is that although there are hundreds of articles reported, the content is identical and almost no new details arise."

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