HCMC – Nguyen Thi Kim Tien, former Minister of Health, is set to stand trial on May 20 over charges of violating regulations on the management and use of State assets, causing losses and wastefulness.
The Hanoi City People’s Court has decided to open the trial on May 20 for Tien and nine other defendants in a case involving alleged violations in the management and use of State assets, fraud and bribery at the Ministry of Health and related entities.
The trial is expected to last six days, with a five-member judicial panel chaired by Judge Nguyen Xuan Van.
Tien, born in 1959, is charged with violating regulations on the management and use of State assets, causing losses and wastefulness.
Facing the same charges are Nguyen Kim Trung (born 1960), former deputy director of the Key National Health Projects Management Board and former deputy head of the Department of Medical Equipment and Health Works under the Ministry of Health; Tran Van Sinh (born 1974), former deputy director of the Health Construction Project Management Board under the Ministry of Health; and Dao Xuan Sinh (born 1976), former director of SHT Investment Consulting and Construction JSC, among others.
Nguyen Chien Thang, former director of the Key National Health Projects Management Board under the Ministry of Health, and Nguyen Huu Tuan, former director of the Health Construction Project Management Board and acting head of the Key National Health Projects Management Board under the Ministry of Health, are charged with violations of regulations on the management and use of State assets, causing losses and wastefulness, and taking bribes.
Le Thanh Thiem, born in 1968 and former director of Sao Nam Song Hong Co. Ltd., is accused of fraud and appropriation of property.
Prosecutors said the defendants committed three main violations linked to the construction projects of the second campuses of Bach Mai Hospital and VietDuc University Hospital.
Losses and waste they caused total VND803 billion, including payments for unnecessary foreign consultancy services, expenditures incurred during project suspension periods and financial support provided to businesses.
