Mr. D. requested a loan of 100 million and was instructed by the subjects to pay the disbursement fee into a bank account. But after 7 transfers with an amount of more than 43 million VND, the disbursement was still not made.
On the afternoon of August 1, Bac Kan City Police (Bac Kan Province) announced that they had prosecuted Nguyen Van Luu (born in 1999), Vu Hong Thai (born in 2003) and Nguyen Anh Vu (born in 2003), all 3 of whom live in Hanoi, for the crime of Fraudulent appropriation of property.
Group of subjects and evidence at the police station.
Police determined that, while surfing Facebook and coming across a page advertising money lending, Mr. HVĐ. (born in 1967, in Nguyen Thi Minh Khai ward, Bac Kan city) contacted and was instructed by Nguyen Van Luu to connect to zalo of "Nguyen Van Viet" registered with phone number 0355.407.xxx managed and used by Luu.
Mr. D. requested a loan of 100 million and was instructed by the subjects to pay the disbursement fee into an account under the name of Tran Thi Diem Trinh.
After 7 transfers with a total amount of 43.7 million VND without disbursement, on July 14, Mr. D. went to the Cyber Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention Department of Bac Kan Provincial Police to report.
Based on the content and nature of the case, Bac Kan Provincial Police have established a special project code LHN2 to fight and coordinate with Gia Lam District Police - Hanoi to clarify the group of subjects operating fraud on the internet in Vinhomes Ocean Park urban area - Gia Lam district, Hanoi city.
During the inspection of 3 apartments in the urban area, in addition to the 3 subjects above, the police force also discovered 4 more subjects: Hoang Quoc Viet (born in 2004), Hoang Van Hao (born in 1996), Vu Quang Thuong (born in 2003), all residing in Xuy Xa commune, My Duc district, Hanoi and Nguyen Van Khang (born in 2005, in Phuong Tu commune, Ung Hoa district, Hanoi) involved in other cases of property fraud.
At the police station, the subjects honestly confessed to their acts of fraud and property appropriation on the internet. In addition to defrauding Mr. D. of the above amount of money, the group of 7 subjects also defrauded more than 70 victims in 26 provinces and cities nationwide with a total amount of over 1 billion VND.
According to Vietnamnet