On the afternoon of May 26, the Ministry of Public Security announced that the Department of Investigation of Crimes related to Corruption, Economy, and Smuggling is investigating and verifying signs of violations related to labor export at Hoang Long Investment, Construction, and Manpower Supply JSC (Hoang Long Company) and several related units.
The Investigation Agency identified that, in addition to Hoang Long Company, there are three other companies: International Cooperation Construction JSC No. 3, International Manpower Supply and Trading JSC (Sona Company) that took advantage of legal regulations on labor export permits and task assignments. These companies imposed service fees, forcing vulnerable workers in difficult circumstances who were seeking employment and higher incomes to pay additional fees multiple times higher than the regulated amount. These fees were kept off the accounting books with the intention of embezzlement, profiteering, and dividing the surplus among themselves, causing property damage to the people and evading tax obligations.
Based on the investigation results, on May 21, 2025, the Investigation Agency of the Ministry of Public Security issued a decision to prosecute and arrest five subjects, including: Nguyen Duc Nam, Chairman of the Board of Directors; Nguyen Thi Quynh Nga, General Director; Nguyen Thi Thanh Hang, Head of Labor Export Room 2; Phuong Truong Long, Head of Labor Export Room 3 of Sona Company; and Nghiem Van Dinh, Director of Incoop 3 Company.
The five defendants were prosecuted and detained for the crime of “Violation of accounting regulations causing serious consequences” according to Article 221 of the 2015 Penal Code (amended and supplemented in 2017).
After the Supreme People’s Procuracy (Department 3) approved, the Investigation Agency of the Ministry of Public Security executed the above decisions and orders in accordance with the law and is continuing to thoroughly investigate and expand the case, applying measures according to the law to recover assets.
Related to this case, previously, the investigation agency had prosecuted six defendants for the crime of “Violation of accounting regulations causing serious consequences,” including Nghiem Quoc Hung, Chairman of the Board of Directors and General Director of Hoang Long Company, and five other defendants for the same crime.
Specifically, the five other defendants are: Nguyen Dinh Tham, deputy general director of Hoang Long Company and general director of JHL Company; Pham Thi Hanh, Mr. Hung’s wife; Dang Thi Phuong, chief accountant of Hoang Long Company, and two accounting staff, Tran Hong Hanh and Nguyen Thi Cam Anh.
According to the Ministry of Public Security, recently, there have been many reports of labor exporters (mostly vulnerable people in difficult circumstances from mountainous areas and poor rural areas) having to pay labor export service fees exceeding the regulated cost norms.
Six defendants were previously prosecuted in the case – Photo: Ministry of Public Security
These individuals had to borrow from banks, relatives, and even loan sharks to arrange enough service fees as required by the enterprise to go abroad for work, causing public outrage.
The Ministry of Public Security determined that this company abused its labor export permit and task assignment, deliberately imposed and forced workers to pay service fees multiple times higher than the regulated cost norms. The company then embezzled the workers’ money.
Hoang Long Company also set up and used two sets of accounting books, made false declarations, kept transactions off the books, and did not fully account for revenue to report taxes, thereby reducing revenue and the amount of corporate income tax payable, causing property damage to the State.
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