Dak Lak, March 3 -- The Police Investigation Agency of the central province of Dak Lak has decided to initiate criminal proceedings against Vo Quoc Toai, born in 1990 and residing in Tuy Hoa ward, for "organising illegal exit for others" under Clause 1, Article 348 of the Penal Code. He has also been banned from leaving his place of residence.

According to investigators, in April 2025, while operating at sea, fishing vessel PY-96896-TS, captained by Toai, allegedly removed its vessel monitoring system (VMS) device and transferred it to fishing vessel PY-90479-TS, captained by his younger brother, in an attempt to evade supervision and tracking by the Vietnam fisheries surveillance force. Toai then steered his vessel into Philippine water...