in the US the president’s son Hunter Biden has been found guilty of lying about his drug use to buy gun illegally the jury in the trial in Delaware convicted him on all three counts he could face a maximum of 25 years in jail Sarah Smith has been following the trial and reports now from wi Wilmington in the state of Delaware hand inand with his stepmother the first lady as well as his wife Hunter Biden left court a convicted felon this trial peppered with lure details about his private life and previous addiction to crack cocaine has clearly put great stress on the whole family Joe Biden appeared after the verdict ironically at a gun safety event not mentioning his son in a statement he said he loved Hunter and is proud of the man he is today he then set off to travel to Delaware to be with his son this evening during the trial prosecutors argued that Hunter Biden had committed a crime by lying on a form about his drug use when buying a revolver in October 2018 that gun along with remnants of crack and drug paraphernalia were discovered in his car by his then partner hi Biden who was also his sister-in-law the Widow of his brother Bo who died of cancer 3 years earlier prosecutors showed video of her trying to dispose of the weapon in a dumpster and she told the court I realize it was a stupid idea now but I was panicking why did you panic asked the prosecutor because I didn’t want him to hurt himself and I didn’t want my kids to find it and hurt themselves Hunter Biden had already described his drug addiction in a book excerpts of the audio version read by the author himself were played in court smoking crack cocaine every 3 days soon became smoking every 2 days then every other day then every hour of every day his defense argued that Hunter Biden wasn’t using drugs around the time he bought the gun but the jury rejected that Donald Trump insists he was only conin icted because President Biden’s using the legal system to persecute his political opponent claims that are undermined by the guilty verdict against the president’s own son thank you very much the justice department say they care only about the law not politics no one in this country is above the law everyone must be accountable for their actions even this defendant however Hunter Biden should be no more accountable than any other citizen convicted of this same conduct Hunter Biden’s willful refusal to comply with Hunter Biden has also been investigated by republicans in Congress who accuse him of pedling influence whilst his father was vice president no charges have resulted from that and attempts to impeach Joe Biden in connection with his son’s business dealings have come to nothing now President Biden has now arrived in Delaware and he was greeted by Hunter Biden his wife and his son and they’re all spending the evening in the family home here in Delaware and it just shows you how close-knit this family is and how worried the president must be about his son sentencing isn’t going to happen in this case for a few months Hunter Biden could be sent to jail for these crimes but it is very unlikely as it is his first offense but he is still facing another criminal trial in September this one for tax avoidance for failing to pay more than a million dollars in tax and that’s going to be happening in the runup to the presidential election in November which is just one more thing for his father to be worrying about
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Andrew Tate faces extradition to UK over rape and human trafficking claims | BBC News
The controversial social media influencer Andrew Tate has told the BBC tonight that he has nothing to fear after a court in Romania ruled he and his brother Tristan can be extradited back to the UK now they face several allegations including rape and human trafficking over a number of years they
Categorically reject the claims while Nick beak is live in the Romanian capital Bucharest for us now Nick you caught up with Mr Tate what did he have to say yeah good evening Clive of course Andrew Tate one of the most Googled people on the planet and back in the
Spotlight once again today tonight here in his brother are back at their home they’ve been allowed to return here and they’re claiming that as a victory in itself but still Mr tapate faces extremely serious allegations both here in Romania and also in the UK with now the possibility the prospect of
Extradition as I caught up with him earlier tonight he was defiant back at his house in Bucharest after another day in custody Andrew Tate and his brother praised the Romanian court for letting them come home for now the UK now have they as they’ve seen that we’re going to be found innocent in
Romania have decided to try and weaponize Romanian courts to put us back in jail and that has failed and justice has come through tonight for us which is fantastic until my trial but the Romanian judge did not find them innocent instead she agreed to an extradition request from British police
Police who are investigating allegations of rape and human trafficking as I put to Andrew Tate tonight if you may have looked at someone wrong or sped in a car in 2012 they’re going to try and put you in jail for Bedford police are looking into very serious allegations but you
Must accept Ser you interrupt me again sir please so what happens is when you get to a certain level of Fame they go through your entire life forensically and try and destroy you earlier they had been brought before a judge to hear that they will be sent to the UK but not
Until after a Romanian court has itself tried them on similar unrelated charges and if found guilty any prison sentence has been served both men have denied all the charges against them Andrew Tate is loved by his many fans for his pronouncements on how men should act his detractors say his message represents a
Danger to women female are barely sentient in his own words Andrew Tate describes himself as absolutely a misogynist it doesn’t matter whether a woman wants to be a lawyer or a housemaker or a webcam girl unless she has a man directing her they’re just not built to be completely independent creatures Andrew
Tate claims his words are often misinterpreted but the police teachers and women’s rights groups say his influence is toxic in the UK some women have spoken about their experience of meeting him including Eevee not her real name who spoke to the BBC last year and whose words are voiced by an
Actress there’s enough evidence out there to show that you know these women that he’s harm do exist so I I think he needs to just get a bit of a reality check and admit to what he’s done can the brothers may be home but can’t travel abroad Andrew Tate once praised what he
Described as Romania’s more lenient approach to sexual assault claims he’s now fighting such claims both here and in the UK Nick beak BBC News book arest
What did the former judge in Gia Lai declare about demanding 1.5 billion VND to win the case?
On January 2, PV’s source Vietnamese people said that the Investigation Agency – People’s Procuracy has just issued an investigation conclusion and proposed to prosecute Mr. Vo Dinh Som, former judge of the People’s Court (People’s Court) of Gia Lai province for the crime of “Receiving bribes”. highway”.
According to the investigation, in March 2022, the People’s Court of Gia Lai province issued a decision to assign Judge Vo Dinh Som to resolve the civil case “Dispute over land use rights” between the plaintiff, Mr. Phan Anh Tuan (residing in the city. Pleiku) with the defendant being the Northern Lake Protection Forest Management Board.
Mr. Vo Dinh Som was proposed to be prosecuted for the crime of “Receiving bribes”. Photo: Investigation agency
Mr. Som learned that the actual disputed land area is 11,897 m2, of which 8,311.6 m2 has been granted a Land Use Rights Certificate (red book) to the North Bien Ho Protection Forest Management Board, and the remaining area is Area of 3,585.4 m2 has not yet issued red books to any individual or organization. Since then, Mr. Som has instructed Mr. Tuan to change the content of the lawsuit, asking the court to recognize the area of 3,585.4 m2 under Mr. Tuan’s right to use. On April 10, 2023, Mr. Tuan submitted to the Court a petition to change the content of the lawsuit.
In May 2023, Mr. Som called and told Mr. Tuan to come to Mr. Som’s office. Here, Mr. Som said that if you want to win the case, you must have money. Mr. Tuan said that if he wins the case, he will give Mr. Som 10m of road width land on the disputed plot of land. Mr. Som said he would not take the land and asked Mr. Tuan to give 2 billion VND. After that, the amount was reduced to 1.5 billion VND.
Mr. Tuan contacted many people to borrow money at Mr. Som’s request but could not borrow money. On the morning of July 30, 2023, at the coffee shop, Mr. Som said that because Mr. Tuan was slow in giving money, the Procuracy did not propose to accept Mr. Tuan’s petition. Mr. Som won the case for Mr. Tuan, but the Procuracy will appeal and will get nothing. Therefore, we must take care that the prosecution agencies accept the petition and that’s it, without having to go to appeal in Da Nang.
One day later, Mr. Tuan came to the office to meet Mr. Som. Mr. Som asked Mr. Tuan to give 500 million VND in advance and must give it within a week for him to resolve the case.
On the morning of August 4, 2023, Mr. Tuan carried a black bag containing a plastic bag containing 10 piles of money with a face value of 200,000 VND (200 million VND) and 6 piles of money with a face value of 500,000 VND (300 million VND), a total of plus 500 million VND and gave it to Mr. Som in his office.
Immediately after Mr. Tuan left the room, the Investigation Agency – Supreme People’s Procuracy executed an Emergency Detention Order and an Emergency Search Order for Mr. Som’s workplace, discovered and seized him. 500 million VND.
During the process of working with the investigation agency, Mr. Vo Dinh Som declared that the discussion with Mr. Phan Anh Tuan related to 1.5 billion VND, which was the capital contribution and investment of the two people to build a pig farm. However, Mr. Som did not know the model and business plan of the pig farm and had no documents or evidence to show the investment or capital contribution with Mr. Tuan. Mr. Tuan declared that he did not invite Mr. Som to contribute capital to build a pig farm. Mr. Tuan himself did not build a pig farm. Therefore, Mr. Som’s testimony about contributing capital to invest in a pig farm is unfounded.
The investigation conclusion showed that Mr. Phan Anh Tuan submitted 8 audio files recording the process of Mr. Som demanding money to win the lawsuit. Afterwards, the Institute of Forensic Sciences – Ministry of Public Security assessed and concluded that no traces of cutting, editing or editing of audio content were detected in the recording files. The voices of the characters in the recording files are those of Mr. Phan Anh Tuan and Mr. Vo Dinh Som.
Regarding this incident, in August 2023, the People’s Court of Gia Lai province issued a decision to temporarily suspend Mr. Som from work. By October 2023, the Party Committee of agencies and businesses in Gia Lai province disciplined Mr. Som to be expelled from the Party.
Trial of a group of former Military Medical Academy officers for receiving money from Phan Quoc Viet’s Viet A Company
Today (December 27), the Hanoi Capital Military Court began trialing 7 defendants for violations that occurred at the Military Medical Academy. This is also part of the Viet A Company case, which is being resolved by the military, the rest will be tried by the Hanoi People’s Court on January 3, 2024.
With the case at the military court today, the group of former officers was accused of committing the crimes of “Abusing positions and powers while performing official duties” and “Violating regulations on bidding causing serious consequences.” .
Defendants Phan Quoc Viet and Ho Anh Son. Photo: Minh Khanh
Among the defendants, four are former officers of the Military Medical Academy, including Ho Anh Son, lieutenant colonel, former deputy director of the Military Medical and Pharmaceutical Research Institute; Nguyen Van Hieu, colonel, former Head of the Department of Equipment and Supplies; Ngo Anh Tuan, major, Head of Finance Department; Le Truong Minh, major, former Head of Pharmaceutical Chemistry Department.
The remaining three defendants include Trinh Thanh Hung, Deputy Director of the Department of Economic and Technical Industries, Ministry of Science and Technology; Phan Quoc Viet and Vu Dinh Hiep are the General Director and Deputy General Director of Viet A Company, respectively.
First mistake According to the indictment, in 2020, the Military Medical Academy and Viet A Company researched Covid-19 test kits with a budget of nearly 19 billion VND from the State. The research results are assets managed by the Minister of Science and Technology, but the Military Medical Academy “agreed to let Viet A Company have full rights to use”.
Specifically, defendant Ho Anh Son, assigned as the project leader, asked Major General Hoang Van Luong, then Deputy Director of the Military Medical Academy, to sign an official dispatch to the Ministry of Science and Technology, requesting the development of the kit. kiểm TRA. Knowing this, Trinh Thanh Hung asked Son to bring Viet A Company into the same research because Hung knew Phan Quoc Viet.
Ho Anh Son agreed and made a new dispatch showing that the Military Medical Academy and Viet A Company had researched, for Major General Luong to sign. The Ministry of Science and Technology accepted this official dispatch.
As a result, Viet A’s test kit researched by Ho Thi Thanh Thuy (Phan Quoc Viet’s wife) had better quality than the product of the Military Medical Academy, so it was tested and was granted a temporary circulation number by the Ministry of Health. time in March 2020.
To be granted official circulation, Viet then directed his subordinates to prepare a minutes showing that the Military Medical Academy agreed to give Viet A Company “full rights to use the research results” and have the Military Medical Academy logo printed on it. onto the product.
The Ministry of Health then approved and allowed Viet A Company to circulate the official test kit product. Thus, research products with State money, owned by the Ministry of Science and Technology, were converted into products of Viet A Company, for this enterprise to sell commercially.
After being licensed by the Ministry of Health, Phan Quoc Viet thanked Trinh Thanh Hung with 350 thousand USD (about 8 billion VND) and gave Ho Anh Son 2.5 billion VND in “commission”.
The second violation also occurred in 2020, when Phan Quoc Viet asked Ho Anh Son to buy cotton swabs and environmental tubes to sell to Viet A Company for resale. Son will enjoy “all profits” from this.
Son agreed and directed his subordinates to find and buy falcon tubes and cotton swabs in Hanoi, then package them and deliver them to Viet A Company. On many products, Ho Anh Son also stamped the logo of the Military Medical and Pharmaceutical Research Institute and Military Medical Academy.
When receiving goods from Son, Viet A Company resold them to a number of state medical facilities or private hospitals, collecting a total amount of more than 3.6 billion VND. Except for taxes, the remaining amount of more than 3.1 billion VND was transferred by Viet A to defendant Son. The prosecution agency determined that, excluding reasonable expenses, defendant Son benefited more than 2.1 billion VND through doing business with Viet A.
3rd violation It was determined by the military prosecution agency that the Military Medical Academy purchased test kits from Viet A Company at a high price during the anti-epidemic process in Bac Ninh, Bac Giang and Ho Chi Minh City.
First, because he was assigned the task of returning to Bac Ninh and Bac Giang to fight the epidemic, Lieutenant General Do Quyet, former Director of the Military Medical Academy, signed a document, requested and received approval from the Ministry of National Defense to spend more than 7.2 billion VND. to buy 220 kits (96 tests/kit).
However, the Military Medical Academy did not bid according to regulations but instead purchased a “designated contractor” from Viet A Company for more than 9.5 billion VND, 2.2 billion higher than the report sent to the Ministry of National Defense. .
In July 2021, the Academy paid more than 5.1 billion VND to Viet A and at this time, defendants Phan Quoc Viet and Vu Dinh Hiep paid “commissions” to the group of officers. Of which, defendant Ho Anh Son received 344 million VND; Ngo Anh Tuan 148 million VND; Nguyen Van Hieu 492 million VND. Defendant Hieu then gave Major General Hoang Van Luong, Deputy Director of the Academy, 50 million VND, saying: “The gifts were provided by companies selling medical supplies.”
Also in 2021, the Military Medical Academy was sent to fight the epidemic in Ho Chi Minh City, so it asked the Ministry of National Defense to spend more than 17.5 billion VND to buy 390 kits (corresponding to 37,440 tests) from Viet A Company. .
However, the contract value was later increased to 77,280 tests, equivalent to more than 32.2 billion VND – 14.6 billion VND higher than the report sent to the Ministry of National Defense.
After that, Vu Dinh Hiep, in his role as Deputy General Director of Viet A, brought more than 3 billion VND in “commission” money to defendant Nguyen Van Hieu; gave Ngo Anh Tuan 921 million VND.
In total, the Military Medical Academy bought more than 81 billion VND worth of tests from Viet A at a higher price than reported, causing a loss of more than 27.7 billion VND. Through this, Phan Quoc Viet and Vu Dinh Hiep paid more than 7.1 billion VND in “commissions” to a group of Military Medical Academy officers, the indictment shows.
In addition to the three violations above, the prosecution agency said that the actions of Lieutenant General Do Quyet, former Director of the Military Medical Academy, and his deputy Major General Hoang Van Luong showed signs of the crime of “Lack of responsibility causing serious consequences.” ” but were separated and investigated and processed later.
