Accordingly, the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee requested administrative agencies and public service units in the city to urgently review and strictly handle, not tolerate, or cover up cases of officials, civil servants, public employees, and workers using foreign language certificates named "Cambridge International" as well as other types of diplomas and certificates that are not in accordance with the law.
Require units to report the handling results to the City People's Committee (through the Department of Home Affairs) before December 1, 2024.
The Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee directed to step up propaganda and dissemination to all cadres, civil servants, public employees and workers under its management authority to raise vigilance, prevent crimes, and strictly comply with legal regulations on management and use of diplomas and certificates.
Do not participate in training, development, testing, and assessment programs and do not use diplomas or certificates issued or organized by organizations or individuals that are established or operate in violation of the law.
At the same time, promptly review, handle or report to competent authorities for review and handling when detecting cases of participation in training, fostering, testing, and assessment programs or using diplomas and certificates issued by organizations or individuals not permitted by law.
The Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee requested the Department of Home Affairs to monitor, urge and report to the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee to consider and handle the heads of agencies and units that are irresponsible, allowing violations to occur without promptly taking measures to handle and correct them according to regulations.
Coordinate with relevant agencies and units to regularly monitor and organize inspections of the declaration and use of diplomas and certificates of cadres, civil servants, public employees and workers in the city according to regulations.
In June 2024, the Internal Political Security Department and the Investigation Security Department of Hanoi City Police completed the investigation and transferred the case file to prosecute Le Van Vang (born in 1981; residing in My Duc district, Hanoi), Luong Viet Anh (born in 1987; residing in Long Bien district, Hanoi) and his accomplices for the act of "fraudulent appropriation of property" when organizing exams and issuing fake Cambridge International English certificates.
According to the investigation, in 2021, Le Van Vang came up with the name of the organization Cambridge International, with the original purpose of organizing English training courses, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it could not be implemented.
Then, understanding the needs of many people with limited English proficiency but needing a certificate to ensure the completion of their application for admission to agencies and units inside and outside the State, Vang proposed to cooperate with the Institute for Educational Development Cooperation Research under the Vietnam Association of Psychological and Educational Sciences, with Luong Viet Anh as Director, to organize foreign language certification exams under the name of Cambridge International.
The subjects advertised this as a prestigious organization in the world for training and granting international foreign language certificates, to attract people who need certificates, register and thereby appropriate money.
Hanoi City Police Investigation Agency seized 2 seals named Cambridge International, including 1 embossed seal and 1 regular ink seal, and many documents (phones, computers) related to Cambridge International examination and certification activities.
Through investigation, the subjects confessed that they had organized exams for candidates every Saturday and Sunday and had issued about 4,200 English certificates under the name Cambridge International with prices ranging from 2,300,000 VND to 18,000,000 VND/certificate (depending on the type).
