According to the investigation, around March 2016, through social relations, Mai Thi Hong Hanh - Director and Chairwoman of the Board of Directors of Xuyen Viet Oil Company, was introduced to meet and get acquainted with Mr. Nguyen Loc An - Deputy Director of the Domestic Market Department, Ministry of Industry and Trade, in charge of licensing. In fact, it was an approach to offer bribes.
Ms. Mai Thi Hong Hanh bribes everything she gives, actually it's not that Ms. Hanh has any magical powers, but because there is a "common ground", just pay the right price and you will get everything.
The item here is the lubricant for the business license for importing and exporting gasoline and oil that the party in need of is Xuyen Viet Oil. The answer from Mr. Nguyen Loc An to the owner Mai Thi Hong Hanh is that the cost must be "according to the general level" from 5-7 billion VND.
Please note, this is only the license fee. Other fees have a "common level" with different prices. Therefore, Mai Thi Hong Hanh gave a total bribe of more than 1.3 million USD, equivalent to more than 30 billion VND and 900 million VND.
Of course, with the illegal business method, Mai Thi Hong Hanh accepted the common price level, "using its fat to fry it", there was nothing to be afraid of. According to the accusation, for Nguyen Loc An alone, Ms. Hanh gave 400 million VND and a Patek Philippe watch worth 23,000 USD.
That common price level was paid to officials, just as Mr. Nguyen Loc An said. Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade - Do Thang Hai received 50,000 USD, Director of the Domestic Market Department, Ministry of Industry and Trade - Tran Duy Dong and Deputy Director Hoang Anh Tuan were bribed 250,000 USD...
"The average price is 5-7 billion VND", a cold and scary statement from the mouth of a Deputy Director of the Domestic Market Department, Ministry of Industry and Trade. That is the money to buy a license to import and export gasoline, like an unspoken law.
How many licenses are issued according to this common ground? No one dares to say, because if said, the person paying for the "common ground" is also involved in bribery.
How many more licenses are there, not only for petroleum but also for many other business fields. What is the average price of those licenses, 5-7 billion VND or more?
Only when corruption and bribery cases break out will the general levels and prices as well as the human faces become clear.
When will we be able to eliminate all kinds of "common grounds" that are for the private benefit of interest groups?
