The Bong Lai Pure House Case: Explaining the reason why the Provincial Procuracy transferred the indictment to the District People's Court for trial

The Police Department of Long An Province is also continuing to investigate the 7th defendant, Le Thu Van, in the case of "abusing democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the State, organizations and individuals (according to Clause 2). Article 331 of the Penal Code 2015 (amended and supplemented in 2017) at Tinh That Bong Lai.

Regarding the case at "Tinh That Bong Lai", on the evening of June 9, the People's Procuracy of Long An province said that this agency had issued an indictment and decided to prosecute before the People's Court of Duc district. Hoa, Long An Province to prepare for the trial of the defendants Le Tung Van (90 years old), Le Thanh Hoan Nguyen (32 years old), Le Thanh Nhat Nguyen (31 years old), Le Thanh Tung Duong (27 years old), Le Thanh Nhi Nguyen (24 years old), Cao Thi Cuc (62 years old).

According to the indictment, during the period from 2019 to 2021, the defendants used means, including computers and mobile phones, to post on personal Facebook and YouTube social networks content that has content. contains untrue, fabricated or distorted information to propagate, incite and insult the reputation of the Police Department of Duc Hoa district, Long An province; offending Buddhism... affects the political security and social order in the locality.

On June 12, talking with Thanh Nien, a representative of the Security Investigation Agency (ANDT) of the Police of Long An province, said that this agency is still continuing to verify and investigate related to the denunciations of the police. Many organizations and individuals have committed many violations of criminal law in Tinh That Bong Lai (house No. 191A, Lap Thanh hamlet, Hoa Khanh Tay commune, Duc Hoa district, Long An province).

At the same time, the Police Department of Long An Province is also continuing to investigate the 7th defendant, Le Thu Van, in the case of "abusing democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the State, organizations and individuals. (according to Clause 2, Article 331 of the Penal Code 2015 amended and supplemented in 2017) at Tinh That Bong Lai.

The People's Procuracy of Long An Province transferred the indictment to the H. Duc Hoa People's Court to propose a trial, and the public questioned why the Long An Provincial Public Security Bureau did not let the H. Duc Hoa Public Security Bureau conduct the operation. authorized investigation. The above issue, the representative of the Police Department of Long An Province confirmed, is the procedural activities in accordance with the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Code 2015.

Specifically, after the H. Duc Hoa Public Security Bureau carried out verification and clarification according to the criminal denunciation (November 24, 2021) of Venerable Thich Nhat Tu, Member of the Board of Directors of the Church. Vietnamese Buddhism, Abbot of Giac Ngo Pagoda in Ho Chi Minh City; The petition (February 25, 2021) signed by the Executive Board of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha in Long An province, signed by Most Venerable Thich Minh Thien, Head of the Executive Committee, on behalf of the police, H. Duc Hoa was also the victim in the case. this case.

Police officer H. Duc Hoa was misrepresented and insulted by the defendants in Tinh That Bong Lai in 2 clips of criminal law violations including "Urgent announcement of the results of the 50-person case and the clip "Emergency rescue Tinh". Bong Lai lost blood, Diem My was kidnapped and disappeared at the police station".

Therefore, the Public Security Bureau of H.Duc Hoa Police has submitted an application to transfer the entire case file to the Investment Security Agency of Long An Provincial Police for further investigation according to regulations. In addition, the Board of Directors of Long An Provincial Police found that the denunciations of crimes occurring at Tinh That Bong Lai were complicated in nature related to religious activities, showing signs of having committed many different crimes. .. should have assigned the Provincial Public Security Bureau to directly handle.

According to the People's Procuracy of Long An province, according to the law, the role of the Procuracy is from the stage of prosecuting the case, supervising the investigation and the stage of exercising the right to prosecute and supervise the trial. For the case of Tinh That Bong Lai, the People's Procuracy of Long An province has exercised the right to supervise and investigate since the case was transferred to the provincial level, so according to the provisions of Article 239 of the 2015 Criminal Procedure Code on the authority to prosecute the case. prosecution, the People's Procuracy of Long An province decides the prosecution.

However, the prosecuting authority of the Procuracy is determined according to the court's jurisdiction over the case (currently there are 4 levels of the People's Court). In this case, the defendants prosecuted in Clause 2, Article 331 of the Penal Code with a penalty of 2-7 years in prison are under the jurisdiction of the district-level People's Court, so the People's Procuracy of Long An province prosecuted the accused. the accused to the People's Court of H. Duc Hoa is in accordance with the law.

The district-level People's Courts can hear criminal cases with penalties for defendants up to 10 years in prison. Accordingly, immediately after the decision to prosecute (June 9), the People's Procuracy of Long An province issued a decision to assign the H. Duc Hoa People's Procuracy to exercise the right to prosecute and supervise the trial of the case. abusing democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the State, organizations and individuals" by 6 defendants in Tinh That Bong Lai.

With a series of channels carrying content that distorts, insults religion, blasphemes Buddhism, insults the reputation and honor of organizations and individuals, as well as deliberately staged video clips incorporating untrue comments. (all of which are censored by Le Tung Van before being posted online) are for the purpose of viewing views, calling for domestic and foreign charity as well as making illegal money on social networks...

To implement these channels, through verification and investigation, MobiFone Service Company Area 8, belonging to MobiFone Telecommunications Corporation, said that Ms. Le Thu Van herself is the subscriber of 2 mobile phone numbers; In which, her son Le Thu Van, defendant Le Thanh Nhat Nguyen, used his mother's mobile phone number to register for Gmail, and then created a YouTube account "Five little uncles - Meditation am on the edge of the universe".

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