For the same crime, the Procuracy also proposed that the court sentence defendant Nguyen Duc Tai (56 years old, former Director of Dong A Bank Transaction Office) and defendant Nguyen Thi Ngoc Van (54 years old, former Deputy General Director of Dong A Bank) each to 2-3 years in prison; defendant Nguyen Thi Ngo (70 years old, General Director of Asia - Pacific Education and Human Resources Development Joint Stock Company) to 7-8 years in prison.

Thus, the sentence proposed by the People's Procuracy is lower than the penalty frame that the defendants were prosecuted for in Clause 3, Article 179 of the Penal Code, which has a penalty frame of 10 - 20 years in prison.

According to the representative of the People's Procuracy, the two defendants Tai and Van were salaried employees who only followed the instructions of defendant Binh without receiving any benefits. Defendant Binh, as the mastermind of the case, violated the regulations on lending, creating conditions for defendant Ngo to be the one to receive the entire amount of more than 980 billion VND.

However, except for defendant Ngo who did not admit to the crime as charged, the remaining 3 defendants repented and had many certificates of merit in their work, of which defendants Binh and Tai were old. Therefore, the People's Procuracy requested the court to impose the above sentence.

The defendants were accused of having issued shares to the public twice in 2007 to increase its charter capital from VND880 billion to VND1,600 billion. Defendant Binh discussed and agreed with defendant Ngo to participate in buying shares to increase Dong A Bank's capital with money from the bank's loans.

Defendant Binh directed his subordinates to lend defendant Ngo 10 loans, totaling VND297 billion. Defendant Ngo used VND269 billion and VND69 billion in loans from Eximbank and ACB to buy 26,500 shares to increase capital of Dong A Bank at VND339 billion.

In 2008, after the loans to buy 26,500 shares of Dong A Bank mentioned above came due, defendant Ngo was unable to repay the loans to the banks. Therefore, defendant Ngo continued to request defendant Binh to direct his subordinates to lend 115 more loans, totaling more than VND 1,055 billion, to restructure the debt for 12 loans to buy 26,500 shares of Dong A Bank in 2007.

Defendant Ngo asked his relatives and employees to borrow money on his behalf so that he could use the money to pay off old loans that were due. By 2016, defendant Ngo still had 42 outstanding loans from Dong A Bank with an amount of more than VND 1,200 billion.

Defendant Binh directed defendants Tai and Van to prepare and sign a document for defendant Binh to approve for defendant Ngo to borrow without collateral, without appraising the loan application... The consequence was a loss of more than 980 billion VND to Dong A Bank, which is impossible to recover.