THE
Managing Director of Viettel Tanzania Limited, Do Manh Hong (44), has (today)
been charged with several counts relating to forgery and fraudulent use of
communication network and occasioning loss of 459m/- to the Tanzania
Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) and the government.
Viettel
Tanzania Limited, trading as Halotel, is a mobile communications company,
providing voice, messaging, data and converged services in Tanzania. It is
owned by Viettel Global, the state-owned Investment Company from Vietnam
investing in Telecommunications market in several countries.
Hong, a
Vietnamese national, was joined in the trial at the Kisutu Resident
Magistrate’s Court in Dar es Salaam facing eight other foreigners.
Before
Principal Resident Magistrate Wilbard Mashauri, the accused person was not
allowed to enter plea to the counts because he is facing economic charges. The
magistrate remanded him in custody as his court lacked jurisdiction to
determine any bail application.
He directed
the accused persons to go to the Economic, Corruption and Organized Crime High
Court’s Division to seek bail, if he so wished. Magistrate Mashauri adjourned
the case to May 25, for mention.
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