Trinh, 35, has been charged with disrupting public order and will face a sentence of 2-7 years in jail. She is at present detained and her case will probably be heard by the Ho Chi Minh Metropolis Folks’s Courtroom.
Tran Xuan Dong, 36, Trinh’s bike teacher, was additionally charged with disrupting public order and fabricating seals and paperwork.
Trinh has three protection legal professionals whereas Dong has one lawyer. Some folks concerned within the mannequin’s pictures crew have additionally been summoned to courtroom.
Based on the indictment, Trinh and Dong pulled off massive displacement bike stunts with out applicable licenses in Thu Duc Metropolis on Oct. 6 final yr.
Trinh carried out the stunts with out protecting tools and rode the automobile in “inappropriate” positions, the formal accusation stated.
In September final yr, Trinh and Dong additionally carried out stunts on a Kawasaki Ninja on the Thu Thiem city space, together with standing on one facet of the automobile, and driving with no fingers, an investigation discovered.
They recorded the stunts and posted them as 5 movies on a number of social media platforms, together with TikTok and Fb, based on the fees. The movies acquired over 163 million interactions.
Prosecutors stated the content material of the posts had negatively affected public safety, order and social security, in addition to youth tradition.
Each defendants have been arrested on Oct. 19 final yr.
Born within the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh, the 35-year-old mannequin started her profession in 2005 and garnered public recognition for her lingerie and swimsuit photograph shoots.
She then received the Miss Vietnam Worldwide pageant in 2011.
She made her debut as an actress within the 2016 movie “Vong Eo 56” (Queen of the Bikini), which was based mostly on her life, and has participated in a number of different movie tasks since then.