On June 27, the Gia Lai Provincial People's Court sentenced defendant Chu Nu Dieu Huyen, former employee of the Vietnam Development Bank (VDB) - Gia Lai Branch, to life in prison.
Defendant Chu Nu Dieu Huyen in court
The trial panel determined that Chu Nu Dieu Huyen (born in 1985, residing in Hoi Thuong ward, Pleiku city) abused her trust to appropriate more than 18 billion VND and defrauded and appropriated nearly 35 billion VND from a gold shop owner in Pleiku city. According to the indictment, through her work at the Vietnam Development Bank - Gia Lai Branch, Dieu Huyen met Ms. LTTH, a gold shop owner in Pleiku city. From September 2019, as a VDB employee, Huyen began borrowing money from Ms. H to lend money to others to repay bank loans, enjoying the difference.
Huyen borrowed money from Ms. H at an interest rate of VND 2,000/million VND/day and then lent it to someone else at VND 2,500/million VND/day and Ms. H agreed. As of May 2020, after many times taking money for others to pay off the loan, Huyen has not yet returned more than VND 53 billion to Ms. H. This amount, Huyen continuously transferred back and forth between her accounts and used it to buy real estate, then made transactions with a third party whose name was in the name of a relative.
When Ms. H asked for the money, Huyen promised many times but did not pay. Huyen gave the reason that the entire amount had been lent to Ms. Le Thi Thuong (also an employee of the Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam - Gia Lai Branch), claiming that Ms. Thuong owed Huyen 133 billion VND, of which 53 billion VND belonged to Ms. H. Then, Huyen asked Ms. H to collect the money on her behalf and took Ms. H to Thuong's house to sign the debt settlement minutes. Here, Huyen asked Ms. Thuong to directly sign the paper that she owed Ms. H 133 billion VND.
After intentionally "pushing the debt" to Ms. Thuong, Huyen declared that she no longer owed Ms. H money, and that this debt was owed by Ms. Thuong to Ms. H. Realizing that she had been deceived, Ms. H filed a complaint against Huyen to the Investigation Police Agency of Gia Lai Province Police.
The police agency determined that from 2019 to 2020, Huyen transferred and gave cash to Ms. Thuong a total of over 226 billion VND; at the same time, Ms. Thuong returned over 236 billion VND to Huyen. The amount that Ms. Thuong returned to Huyen was more than the amount that Huyen transferred to Ms. Thuong. The investigation agency determined that Ms. Thuong did not owe Huyen 133 billion VND.
From April 2019 to June 2020, Ms. H transferred over 193 billion VND to Huyen, and Huyen returned nearly 140 billion VND. The police determined that the remaining amount Huyen had appropriated from Ms. H was more than 53 billion VND.
At the trial, Huyen did not admit to her crime. However, based on the documents, evidence in the case file, the testimony of the people involved and other evidence, the court sentenced Huyen to life in prison for "Fraudulent appropriation of property", 20 years in prison for "Abuse of trust to appropriate property", the total sentence is life in prison.
According to VNA