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Pham Ngoc Dat and 7 accomplices bought people's bank accounts and then sold them to a criminal group abroad to defraud hundreds of billions of dong.
Suspect Dat at the investigation agency
On October 14, Nghe An Provincial Police were detaining Dat; Hoang Khac Trung, 21 years old; Ngo Duc Y, 36 years old; Nguyen Trong Duc, 28 years old; Le Van Cuong, 33 years old; Nguyen Van Cong, Nguyen Van Lap; Nguyen Van Ly, 19 years old, to investigate the crime.Illegal trading of bank account information, according to Article 291 of the Penal Code.
In 2020, Dat's group met many people in Nghe An and some provinces and cities, asking to buy personal bank accounts to "run advertising programs" for 1.5 million VND per account.
Authorities allege that Dat then contacted several foreign partners to resell the product for 4 million VND.
In early October, the Criminal Police Department (Nghe An Provincial Police) discovered clues of the violation, determining that Dat's group had defrauded and bought information from 23 accounts, illegally profiting more than 55 million VND.
According to the investigation agency, the criminal group abroad, when buying bank account information from Dat, will use it to commit online fraud, betting, money laundering... At the time of dismantling the network, the police recorded that each account had a transaction amount of nearly 200 billion VND.
Dat confessed that he had worked in Cambodia for a while and learned that some criminals there wanted to buy other people's bank account information at high prices, so when he returned home, he set up a network to buy and sell accounts for profit.
According to VnExpress