Breaking up a money laundering ring worth nearly 30,000 billion VND, with bank employees involved

On January 22, Da Nang City Police said they were expanding the investigation into a money laundering ring worth tens of thousands of billions of dong, arresting many related subjects.

Police also searched the suspects' residences and workplaces, seizing 122 fake seals, 40 original copies of business registration certificates and many other related tools and means.

Initial investigation results determined that from 2022 to 2024, TQT (36 years old, residing in Hai Chau district, Da Nang city) forged citizen identification cards to establish 187 businesses.

This person also forged many seals of banks, agencies, and notary organizations to authenticate fake citizen identification cards and business registration certificates of established enterprises.

On this basis, the subject registered to open more than 600 corporate bank accounts and resold them to other subjects for the purpose of transferring and legalizing money flows of criminal origin (fraud, gambling...) from abroad to Vietnam.

Police determined that the total amount of transactions through the above bank accounts was nearly 30,000 billion VND (of which foreign currency was estimated at more than 300 billion VND).

According to the investigation agency, TQT's crime ring had the support of many different accomplices in Da Nang City such as NHM (23 years old, residing in Hoa Vang district); HN (25 years old) and NT (29 years old, both residing in Hai Chau district) and MD (26 years old, residing in Lien Chieu district).

In which, NHM is the subject colluding with TQT in forging citizen identification cards to establish businesses.

HN has created and sold bank accounts to MD and NHM.

In addition, N. and D. also assisted the scammers in recovering VND 780 million from criminal activities transferred to the accounts previously established by the subjects.

According to the police, NT is a bank employee who colluded with TQT to open many accounts and sell them to other subjects to conduct money transfer transactions, and at the same time provided account information to TQT to withdraw 900 million VND originating from criminal activities.

Da Nang police are expanding the investigation into the case, and at the same time recovering as much of the defrauded assets as possible to return them to the victims.