The goal is to make a profit
On the morning of December 28, the People's Court of Dak Nong province heard a case of “Violating food safety regulations” in the case of mixing coffee pods with battery cores and impurities.
The defendants brought to trial include: Phan Thi Dung (SN 1962, residing in Loc Ninh town, Loc Ninh district, Binh Phuoc province), Nguyen Thi Thanh Loan (SN 1975, residing in hamlet 13, Dak Wer commune, Dak R'lap district, Dak Nong province, Nguyen Xuan Bao (SN 1985, residing in Quang Thanh hamlet, Dao Nghia commune, Dak R'lap district, Dak Nong province), Le Thi Hong Tho (SN 1979) and Tran threshold (Another name is Tran Van Tuan, SN 1976, residing in Nam N'Jang commune, Dak Song district, Dak Nong province). All 5 above subjects were prosecuted by the People's Committee of Dak Nong province for “Violating the regulations on food safety”.
Defendant Bao in court.
According to the indictment of VKS, Phan Thi Dung at this time Director of Thao Dung Production and Trade Co., Ltd. (Thao Dung Company), thanks to Le Thi Hong Tho, Director of Tinh Tho Dak Nong Co., Ltd., purchased impurities of Nguyen Xuan Bao and Nguyen Thi Thanh Loan, then hired Tran Nguong to transport and deliver Dung to mix with pepper to sell for profit.
On April 22, 2018, Dak Nong police discovered and seized at Dung's warehouse with 360 bags of pepper, weighing 9 tons, worth more than VND 454 million.
According to the expertising conclusions of the Institute of Criminal Science, the General Department of Police – Ministry of Public Security, the sample of pepper is the main ingredient, which is 81.66%; In addition, substances including: crust of coffee, stone crumb, battery powder (with manganese dioxide, zinc chloride, ammonium chloride) content of total impurities were 18.34%.
Manganese dioxide, zinc chloride, ammonium chloride discovered under the above assessment conclusions are not in the list of auxiliary substances for food processing (according to the Consolidated Document No. 02 / BHN-BYT of June 15, 2015). Ministry of Health).
In this case, there are some related subjects, including Ngo Ngoc Son (SN 1998, resident of Nghia Thang commune, Dak R'lap district), employees for Loan, Bao who directly mixed impurities and Mr. Le Van Tap has acts of mixing impurities into pepper for Dung.
Although participating in the assistance, the People's Procuracy of Dak Nong Province identified these subjects as hired employees.
Mr. Son did not discuss, negotiate a profit-sharing agreement with Loan, Bao and did not know what battery-impurity mixture was made for use; Lap and some other people are just hired workers who do not know Dung's jobs, so they do not consider and handle them.
For profit despite consumer health
At the trial, Bao claimed that he was just a hired employee. When the owner, Ms. Loan wanted black impurities, Bao had thought of a way to mix the battery core into the impurities.
“Until now just thought the impurities were used to make fertilizer, not knowing it could be used to mix into pepper” – Bao told the court.
For her part, Loan said that she is a trader of pepper bran and pepper for resale. Prior to the indictment of VKS, Loan admitted that he organized mixing impurities to sell to Poetry but did not know what the impurity was for. Also accused Tho also claimed that she did not know what Mrs. Dung bought for impurities.
Dung herself said that the purpose of mixing impurities into pepper is only to increase the weight for export, not knowing what its partners use for it.
Despite the fact that the defendants did so, the representative of the People's Procuracy maintains the view that prosecuting the defendants not only violates food safety regulations, but also affects the reputation of Vietnam's pepper industry. The defendants are aware enough to understand that pepper sold is mainly used as a spice.
Representative of Dak Nong People's Committee proposed to sanction defendants aged 7-9 years in prison for “Violating regulations on food safety”. In particular, Loan was sentenced to 8-9 years of imprisonment, other defendants were sentenced to 7-7 years and 6 months of imprisonment.
This afternoon, the trial will continue.
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