"Land broker" Luong Minh Anh in Nam Sach was caught for fraud.

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Luong Minh Anh (born in 1997, residing in Thanh Quang commune, Nam Sach) just finished 11th grade and has no stable job. Because he needed money to pay off debts, spend money, and gamble on the internet, Minh Anh came up with the idea of ​​becoming a "land broker" to cheat people out of their money.

During the period from March 20, 2021 to May 11, 2022, Minh Anh provided false information about his relationship with investors of many real estate projects in Hai Duong City and Nam Sach District. Minh Anh was given priority by investors to deposit to buy land lots before opening for sale at "diplomatic" prices (lower than the market price when the investor opened for sale). Trusting Minh Anh's words, many people in Nam Sach, Tu Ky, Cam Giang districts and Hai Duong City gave Minh Anh money to deposit.

One of the typical cases of Minh Anh's fraud method was at the end of 2021, Minh Anh introduced that he had a relative who was a leader of a department with diplomatic land plots in the new urban area projects west of Nam Sach town (Nam Sach), Xuan Duong residential area project, Tu Minh ward, and the residential area project north of Cau Han (all in Hai Duong city). Based on the information Minh Anh provided, she trusted it, so from November 26, 2021 to May 11, 2022, Ms. Nguyen Thi T. in Nam Sach district transferred to Minh Anh many times a total of nearly 6.2 billion VND to deposit to buy 29 plots of land in the projects: New urban area west of Nam Sach town, residential area north of Cau Han, Xuan Duong residential area, Doan Ket residential area, Hong Phong commune (Nam Sach).

After receiving money from Ms. T., Minh Anh transferred the brokerage commission to deposit land purchase, paid debts to 13 individuals with a total amount of more than 1.7 billion VND and used it for online gambling, contributed capital to do business but lost money, and spent it all for personal expenses.

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Not only people who knew Minh Anh directly fell into the trap, many people who met Minh Anh through relatives and friends were also deceived. Around May 2021, Mr. Huong, Ms. Thuy and Mr. Hach in Hai Duong City learned that Ms. Tran Ngoc D. residing in Quang Thanh Commune (Kinh Mon) had deposited money to reserve a plot of land at the Dong Khe new residential area project, Hong Phong Commune (Nam Sach). All 3 people asked Ms. D. to find a contact to deposit money to reserve a plot of land at the above project. Through Ms. Nguyen Thi Minh T. in Hai Duong City, Ms. D. learned that Minh Anh still had 2 plots of land in the above project, Ms. D. met Mr. Huong and Mr. Hach to sign a cooperation agreement to reserve a plot. In which, signed a contract to reserve land lot LK4.13 with the amount of 350 million VND with Mr. Huong (including deposit of 100 million VND, difference of 250 million VND) and signed a contract to reserve land lot LK4.8 with the amount of 300 million VND with Mr. Hach (including deposit of 100 million VND, difference of 200 million VND). Of the amount of money that Mr. Hach deposited, Ms. Thuy contributed 150 million VND. Ms. D. committed that when the Dong Khe urban area land project opened for sale, Mr. Huong and Mr. Hach would be able to buy the above land lots. Along with that, Ms. D. gave all the money received from Mr. Hach and Mr. Huong to Minh Anh.

By November 2021, Mr. Huong, Ms. Thuy and Mr. Hach had not received any information about the above land project, so when they called to ask, Ms. D. said that she had ordered land from Minh Anh. At the same time, Ms. D. took Mr. Huong and Ms. Thuy to meet Minh Anh to ask.

On November 22, 2021, in Hai Duong City, Minh Anh rewrote the cooperation agreement to reserve 2 plots of land LK4.8 and LK4.13 with Mr. Huong and Ms. Thuy. By April 2022, Mr. Huong and Ms. Thuy learned that the new Dong Khe residential area had not been opened for sale and contacted Minh Anh many times to get their money back. Under this pressure, Minh Anh admitted that he did not deposit money with the investor to buy plots of land LK4.13 and LK4.8 as committed to Mr. Huong, Ms. Thuy, and Mr. Hach, but used it to pay off previous loans and personal expenses.

With the above methods and tricks, from March 20, 2021 to May 11, 2022, Minh Anh defrauded and appropriated money from 11 people, totaling more than 8.8 billion VND.

Through this incident, to minimize risks and avoid being taken advantage of by criminals when investing in land, the authorities recommend that people research and learn carefully about the project, plot, and land plot before investing, and only transact when the land plot has full legal status. Along with that, work directly with the investor or legal representative to have official information. When carrying out transactions that require signing a contract, witnessed by the authorities, do not arbitrarily deposit money or conduct other transactions with unofficial organizations or individuals.

The case has now been completed by the Provincial People's Procuracy and prosecuted before the Provincial People's Court to try Luong Minh Anh for fraud and property appropriation.