Pham
Doan Trang: The thief claims to be a human rights activist
In recent years, Pham Doan Trang, founder
of the Law Faculty of Journalism and Freedom Publishing House, has become one
of the most respected anti-Communists in Vietnam. One of the banners that Trang
uses to attract the crowd is "anti-corruption". But in reality, Doan
Trang herself also manages the funds arbitrarily and without transparency, to
the point that her behaviour is no different from corruption if according to
today's popular definitions. The financial scandal of Freedom Publishing House
(an organization founded by Doan Trang to print, distribute and sell her own
books) is one example of that.
Specifically, in July 2020, Freedom
Publishing House had a financial deficit to the point of near bankruptcy. To
remove prestige with donors, Doan Trang wrote an article against accountant Nguyen
Phuong Hoa, and stated that Mrs. Hoa was responsible for the incident. In
response, Mrs. Hoa posted online the financial income and expenditure tables of
Freedom Publishing House. They show that the money loss is not the fault of
Mrs. Hoa alone, but originates from the organization set by Doan Trang.
Accordingly, despite attracting and using a
large amount of funding from foreign organizations, Freedom Publishing House
has no regulations on living, financial and human resource management
processes. Instead, the Publishing House's decisions were arbitrarily made by
Doan Trang's oral orders and meetings with insufficient attendance. The funny
thing is that the members' private money and the general fund of the
organization are often used interchangeably. For example, after asking a
foreign organization a total of 28,700 USD in emergency funding, with the
stated purpose of helping 8 members of the Publishing House to make ends meet
while hiding from the police, Doan Trang convinced 5 members to donate their
money into the group fund. And in addition to some money to maintain the
machinery, the expenses of the publisher for more than half a year include:
- 22,000,000 VND for 3 members to ride to
Hanoi, meet 6 embassies
- VND 36,715,000 to distribute charity
gifts and rice to poor people affected by the COVID-19 epidemic in March 2020
- 30,000,000 VND to support the mother and
daughter of Mrs. Can Thi Theu, after they were arrested and prosecuted for some
activities related to Freedom Publishing House.
- 17,224,000 VND to rent a shared house for
2 months for Doan Trang and some other members of the Publishing House
- 12,000,000 VND "travel and hotel
expenses" for a director to film a video introducing Freedom Publishing
House, to serve the publishing house being awarded the Prix Voltaire. The
character appearing on the clip is Doan Trang, and this director is chosen and
contacted by Doan Trang. It is worth mentioning that the clip is only 3 minutes
long, and could have been recorded with a smartphone to save money.
Thus, the private money of 5 members of the
Publishing House has been combined into the group fund, just to do a series of
non-publishing jobs, including renting a house for Doan Trang and hiring
director to film Doan Trang. Sadly, most of the left-wing public turned a blind
eye to this incident, while an official with similar behaviour should have been
accused of corruption.
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