A group of people in Bac Giang impersonated doctors to defraud 75 billion VND.

Bac Giang Provincial Police have just investigated and clarified the case of many subjects impersonating doctors to give advice and advertise falsely about the effects of medicines, selling them at prices dozens of times higher than the original price, illegally profiting nearly 75 billion VND.

Previously, Tan Yen District Police received a complaint from Ms. Trinh Thi Oanh (57 years old, residing in Ngoc Chau commune, Tan Yen district, Bac Giang) about being deceived by a fake doctor.

According to the complaint, a person who introduced himself as Hoang Anh Duc, Director of the Oncology Hospital in Hanoi, advised Ms. Oanh to buy medicine to treat her illness. She trusted him and bought it for use, but after using it, her eyes became swollen, so she informed the subject.

However, this person advised her to take a combination of 5-6 other medicines. In particular, if she wanted to recover faster, she should use a special, rare type of lingzhi mushroom, priced at 1.2 million VND/kg.

Continuing to trust, Ms. Oanh ordered 200 kg of lingzhi mushrooms. After transferring a total of 237 million VND to the account numbers provided by the subject many times without seeing the mushrooms, Ms. Oanh called the subject but he evaded and then hung up, making it impossible to contact him.

Receiving a complaint from the people, Bac Giang Provincial Police established a special investigation. After many days of investigating the situation, the Police identified the subject "Duc - Director" as an employee of Bao Long Duoc Limited Liability Company, located in Hanoi, specializing in impersonating a doctor to defraud drug sales.

On December 15, the authorities urgently searched the residence, workplace and related places of Bao Long Duoc Company Limited with its head office (No. 10B, Alley 88, To Vinh Dien Street, Khuong Trung Ward, Thanh Xuan District) with Nguyen Thi Hien as Director; Office (4th floor, No. 118, Nguyen Ngoc Nai Street, Khuong Mai Ward, Thanh Xuan District and 6th floor, No. 116, Trung Liet, Trung Liet Ward, Dong Da District) and a number of apartments and residences (Kim Giang Street, Dai Kim Ward, Hoang Mai District).

Authorities seized 287 cardboard boxes containing drugs, 68 computers and laptops, 267 mobile phones and many documents related to fraud.

Through initial investigation, the police identified Nguyen Thi Hien (27 years old, residing in Tri Quang commune, Bao Thang district, Lao Cai province) and Dang Van Thang (29 years old, residing in Van Lang village, Quang Trung commune, Phu Xuyen district, Hanoi) as a married couple who jointly manage Bao Long Duoc Limited Liability Company.

The subjects established the Company to operate in the form of multi-level marketing. They took advantage of the reputation and names of good and famous doctors working at large hospitals and medical centers to commit fraud; advertised and gave false advice about the patient's health condition to sell drugs and functional foods at high prices.

The initial price of these medicines and functional foods is only 30,000-40,000 VND/box but is sold for 1-3 million VND/box.

Products sold by Bao Long Duoc Limited Liability Company are named Vuong Hoang Giap, Nhat Giap Khang, Bach Vi Nam, Binh Moc Giap, An Moc Vuong, Giap Nam Binh,...

Thang and Hien ordered these products from herbal medicine processing factories, then had them print labels according to their requirements. Thang and Hien did not know what ingredients the food contained, what its uses and features were.

Authorities informed that from October 2022 until their arrest, this group of subjects sold about 80,000 orders to more than 20,000 people in provinces and cities across the country, illegally profiting nearly 75 billion VND.

The Investigation Police Agency of Tan Yen District Police has detained 22 subjects for investigation and handling according to regulations.