Today, November 1, Nguyen Duc Vinh (born in 1975, residing in Quan Bau ward, Vinh city, Nghe An province) and 10 other defendants appeared in court in the case of Diffusion of depraved cultural products by the Provincial People's Court. Nghe An trial.
This is a case that caused a stir in public opinion because this ring existed for a long time, spreading a large amount of depraved videos and images, up to 19 million pieces of content.
The November 1 verdict of the People's Court of Nghe An province sentenced defendant Vinh to 4 years in prison. The remaining 10 defendants received from one year and nine months of suspended prison time to four years in prison for the crime of spreading depraved cultural products, according to Article 326 of the Penal Code, VnExpress reported.
Dan Tri reported from the trial that the defendants expressed their awareness that their actions were wrong, honestly confessed their crimes, and hoped to receive leniency from the law.
Defendant Vinh presented to the court that he suffered from a rare disease and had limited mobility since 1996. Of the more than 360 million VND he illegally profited from the crime, Vinh used most of it to buy medicine. treatment. As for defendant Trinh Anh Tuan, he is seriously ill and is undergoing treatment, so Tuan's actions were separated into a separate case and tried later.
Leader Nguyen Duc Vinh – Photo: Nghe An Police
According to an investigation by Nghe An Provincial Police, Nguyen Duc Vinh is the leader of this ring. In early 2014, the management of the overseas website “thiendia.com” posted information recruiting administrators (also known as Mods) for the site. Nguyen Duc Vinh started a trial job as a manager of the “Northern Entertainment” section with a salary of 2.5 million VND/month.
Vinh's job at the request of his superiors is to censor and edit members' articles in the column.
Around 2016, Nguyen Duc Vinh was upgraded by the website administrator to be one of three Super mods (equivalent to the highest management) with the task of managing all the Mods below.
Subjects arrested in the project – Photo: Nghe An Police
Nguyen Duc Vinh has compiled a number of general rules and discussion groups on the forum or on telegram to urge, guide and remind participating Mods and members to comply with the rules on the forum and post articles. Depraved content to develop the forum to attract more members to participate.
In order to post more content for members to participate in, administrators created channels on Telegram and added Nguyen Duc Vinh and some Mods to jointly upload depraved clips every day to increase the revenue. visits to view.
Every day, Nguyen Duc Vinh will monitor and evaluate the level of active activity of the Mods through the number of videos, articles, content posted… on the forum as well as on telegram channels and then send it back to you. admin to pay Mods with a virtual currency, through a cryptocurrency wallet.
Through the investigation process, on April 25, 2024, Nghe An Provincial Police conducted an inspection and search of Nguyen Duc Vinh's residence, discovering and confiscating a phone and laptop containing data inside. account and 03 Telegram accounts named “Chym Tua”, “Male Crab” and “Hoa Phuong” managed by Nguyen Duc Vinh to participate in operating the line Disseminating depraved cultural products on the internet website: Web: Thiendia2 .cc. At the police station, Nguyen Duc Vinh admitted his crime.
The police seized millions of images and many depraved video files at Nguyen Duc Vinh's house. Photo: Nghe An Police
In addition, the police also searched the residence of the accomplices and discovered and confiscated the computers and phones of these subjects containing content reflecting their role in assisting Nguyen Duc Vinh to operate the Web. Thiendia2.cc.
Nghe An Police determined that this is a group of subjects committing organized, transnational crimes. The line spreading depraved cultural products has been operating for a long time despite being blocked many times and changing its domain name.
By the time they were destroyed, the subjects had attracted more than 1.1 million members to participate, distributed more than 19 million depraved content, caused public anger, and adversely affected ideology and morality. ethics, lifestyle, fine customs and traditions.
