Dong Nai Province People’s Procuracy has laid charges of “violating regulations of lending in the activities of credit organizations” against seven former officials of province-based Long Thanh branch of the Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade (VietinBank).
They were charged with granting insecure loans worth more than VND431 billion (US$22.1 million), causing a loss of VND336 billion.
Among the seven officials are Tran Thi Thanh Nga, former director of the Long Thanh branch, and Nguyen Duc Dung, former deputy director.
Pham Van Tho and Nguyen Thi Nhan are former chiefs of the branch’s customer office. The three others are credit officers.
The Dong Nai prosecution agency also laid charges against three company executives involved in the case.
Investigations showed Nga and Dung directly signed some loan contracts with the companies without assessing their assets, or with enterprises which do not have business licenses; and some loans exceeded the allowed amount or were spent on wrong purposes.
