According to the indictment No. 12/CT-VKSTL dated January 13, 2025 of the People's Procuracy of Tien Lang District: On the morning of December 16, 2024, Nguyen Ba Binh used his mobile phone to access the Youtube application to learn about the process and methods of producing firecrackers. At the same time, he contacted a stranger on the Internet to buy 6 kg of Potassium Chlorate, 4 kg of Sodium, 1.5 kg of sulfur, pre-cut paper, 30 bottles of 502 glue, 2 rolls of nylon (in the form of food wrap) to produce firecrackers to be burned on the occasion of Lunar New Year 2025.
At about 9:00 a.m. on December 20, 2024, Binh received the above materials and began to make fireworks by mixing potassium chlorate, sodium, and sulfur in a ratio of 6:4:1.5. Then, Binh made the fuse (firecracker fuse) by spreading nylon on a flat surface and adding the previously mixed fireworks mixture, rolling it into a wire with a diameter of about 0.2 cm. After preparing the fireworks and the fuse, Binh proceeded to produce the finished fireworks.
At 9:00 p.m. on December 22, 2024, Nguyen Ba Binh was manufacturing firecrackers at his house in Xuan Trai village, Bac Hung commune, Tien Lang district when he was inspected, discovered, and arrested by the Criminal Investigation Police Team on Criminal, Economic and Drug Crimes of Tien Lang district police. The seized evidence included 195 finished firecrackers, total weight of 7.295 kg; 486 firecracker tubes, total weight of 10.690 kg; 68 slow-burning fuses, total weight of 0.455 kg, length of 20.05 m and 2 plastic boxes containing explosive firecrackers, total weight of 8.925 kg.
At the trial, defendant Nguyen Ba Binh confessed to all of his crimes as charged in the indictment. Based on the results of the questioning and debate at the trial, the panel of judges sentenced defendant Nguyen Ba Binh to 36 months in prison for the crime of producing prohibited goods, as stipulated in Point c, Clause 1, Article 190 of the Penal Code.
