Impersonating bank employees to defraud loans

January 13, 2023 06:16

On January 12, the Hanoi People's Court sentenced defendant Le Tu Quang (born in 1992, in Duyen Thai commune, Thuong Tin district, Hanoi) to 12 years in prison for the crime of "Fraudulent appropriation of property" as prescribed in Article 174, Clause 4, Point a of the Penal Code.

Quang has no job and has a criminal record for "fraudulent appropriation of property". Lacking money to spend, Quang came up with the idea of ​​appropriating money from people who need to borrow money from credit institutions.

To gain people's trust, Quang pretended to be a bank employee, capable of doing loan procedures without collateral. Instead, customers had to pay 5% of the loan package value.

On the other hand, Quang also introduced himself as an acquaintance of many bank leaders, so he could make a consumer loan card that could be used for 45 days, without interest, without collateral, and only incurring a card making fee of 2-5% of the loan package value. Quang also asked the victims to transfer the card making fee in advance. However, after receiving the money, Quang used many excuses to prolong the time.

Quang lied to the victims that the bank's leaders were waiting for loan approval and continued to ask the victims to transfer more money to order and rent POS machines to withdraw money... After that, Quang turned off his phone and blocked his Zalo account to cut off contact with the victims. Using this trick, Quang appropriated more than 630 million VND from 31 victims.

Among the cases is Ms. Pham Thi M. (born in 1968, in Hoai Duc district, Hanoi). Around the beginning of 2020, through social relationships, Quang met and knew that Ms. M. needed to borrow money from the bank, so he said he would help. Ms. M. trusted him and asked Quang to do the procedures to issue a consumer loan card for her and 4 others. However, Quang was unable to issue a consumer loan card for Ms. M.

After that, Quang told Ms. M. that he had been fired and was no longer a bank employee, but he still had relationships and acquaintances with many bank leaders. Quang promised to help Ms. M. get a consumer loan card. After discussing, Ms. M. helped Quang receive money from those who wanted to get a consumer loan card and found 5 more people.

Following Quang's instructions, Ms. M. provided Quang's phone number to everyone so they could contact him directly. Quang asked these people to transfer the bank card fee in advance to appropriate the money. Around the beginning of October 2020, Quang continued to give the reason that he knew a bank employee who could help Ms. M. make a consumer loan card. This time, Quang opened a Zalo account and a bank account under the name Nguyen Dinh Hoan to act as the person to transact with the victims.

After being introduced by Ms. M., many people contacted the Zalo account Nguyen Dinh Hoan, who was actually Quang, to ask for cards. Quang asked them to transfer the card making fee to appropriate it.

According to VNA

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