Regarding the current situation of Vietnam, said poet Bui Minh Quoc:
“No matter where you turn your face, you have to hold back your vomiting
An entire time of laziness has ascended.”
Yes, in Vietnam now, the society is rotten and rotten, and the current hot story about the vehicle registry sector in particular, or the transportation sector in general, is an example.
On the afternoon of January 3, 2023, at the government’s regular press conference, Lieutenant General To An Xo – the spokesman for Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security – said that there was a director of a vehicle registration center who could not read or write.
This director is Mr. Ho Huu Tai, 52 years old, head of the 50-17D Motor Vehicle Registration Center in Nha Be district, Ho Chi Minh City.
This case of illiterate directors is not uncommon. On March 25, 2022, the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court sentenced Ms. Thach Thi Hoa, 38, as the director of TTH Company, to 13 years in prison, on charges of producing fake goods. Ms. Thach Thi Hoa is an illiterate director who founded a company to sell fake gloves. This company buys used gloves, poor quality gloves, and then fakes the packaging of famous brands, packaged and shipped to the market. The shipment discovered in the case of TTH Company was worth nearly VND3.2 billion ($133,000).
Mr. Ho Huu Tai did not set up his own business, he became director because to… collect debt.
Mr. Nguyen Thanh Phong, 42 years old, is the chairman of the Board of Directors of An Phat Company – the owner of the 50-17D Motor Vehicle Registration Center. This center was established and operated from 2019 until it was closed at the end of 2022. However, after it was established, due to the impact of the epidemic, the operation was not smooth and stuck in debt.
Mr. Phong and Mr. Tai had a close relationship, so Mr. Phong borrowed money from Mr. Tai, and was unable to repay the debt. In order to gradually reduce his debt, Mr. Phong appointed Mr. Tai to be the director of 50-17B Motor Vehicle Registration Center.
Mr. Tai works as the center’s director, but is not the registrar, not the person responsible for organizing and administering the center’s inspection activities. He also did not sign technical safety and environmental protection certificates for motor vehicles. Mr. Tai only managed the finances and supervised the assets of the center… His main job was doing business and leveling the ground.
Like other registration centers for violations, their facility accepted bribes to ignore violations. Usually, these centers have used tricks to bypass violations, such as: leasing spare parts to bypass the registration system, even interfering with the system to change technical parameters, For example, emissions data.
Lieutenant General To An Xo said at the press conference, more than 70,000 motor vehicles were inspected in the that way, that is, the centers receive bribes to issue technical safety certificates for the vehicles. The violation registration centers have issued about 52,300 certificates of technical safety and environmental protection, earning tens of billions of dong illegally.
Many registration centers are not qualified but are still established, and they create a list of fake inspectors to legitimize some regulations on motor vehicle inspection services. The question is: Where is the role of the Vietnam Registry, why do these things happen? Or is the Vietnam Registry and the Ministry of Transport themselves also involved in the indigo to pass?
HCM City’s Police have searched 13 registration centers and probed 43 people of these centers.
The motor vehicle registration investigation is still being expanded, and it is likely that many other violation centers will be discovered across the country.
Not only vehicle registration centers, driving schools also have a lot of problems. The sale of driver’s licenses is common throughout the provinces. Not only a motorbike license, even a car driver’s license can be bought easily. If the Ministry of Public Security really wants to do it, this case will certainly involve many higher-level agencies and departments, possibly even at the ministerial level.
Thoibao.de (Translated)
