15 defendants and "beautiful woman" of Nghe An embezzled more than 50 billion VND to appear in court

On April 26, the People's Court of Nghe An province is expected to open a trial for Nguyen Thi Lam (born in 1987, former employee of the Do Luong Transaction Office, branch of the Vietnam Export Import Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Eximbank) in Vinh City, Nghe An) and 15 defendants in the case of "embezzling" more than 50 billion VND.

In which, Nguyen Thi Lam was prosecuted for the crime of "Fraudulent appropriation of property" according to point a, clause 4, article 189, Penal Code 1999.

Nguyen Thi Lam. Photo: KA

Dang Dinh Hong (born in 1973, former Director of Eximbank Do Luong Transaction Office), Tran Kim Thoa (born in 1982, former Deputy Head of Credit Department of Eximbank Vinh branch) were both prosecuted for the crime of "Intentionally violating State regulations on economic management causing serious consequences" according to Clause 3, Article 165, Penal Code 1999.

Thirteen other defendants, former employees of Eximbank Do Luong transaction office and Eximbank Vinh branch, were also prosecuted for the crime of "Intentionally violating State regulations on economic management, causing serious consequences".

According to the indictment of the People's Procuracy of Nghe An province, from 2012 to 2016, Nguyen Thi Lam took advantage of customers' trust, deceived customers into signing payment orders, signed fake payment authorizations, and payment statements.

Every time he needed a customer's signature, Lam used tricks such as paying interest and bonuses to customers and mixing these procedures with documents such as payment orders, cash statements, and payment authorizations for customers to sign for fictitious purposes.

Then, Lam took it home to legalize the withdrawal or transfer of money. There were also many cases where Lam forged the customer's signature and then took it to the bank staff, lying that he was withdrawing or transferring money on behalf of the customer.

Due to trust in Lam, due to the loose direction and management of Hong - Director of Eximbank Do Luong Transaction Office, bank employees processed procedures for Lam to withdraw and transfer money even though the customer was holding the savings book and the customer was not present.

Using the above tricks, Lam withdrew deposits of 6 customers in Nghe An in the Eximbank banking system with a total amount of more than 50 billion VND.

The other defendants mentioned above did not comply with the regulations when working at the transaction office and Eximbank Vinh branch, leading to Lam taking advantage of withdrawing savings deposits in the Eximbank Vinh system of 6 customers to appropriate and intentionally violated the regulations on deposits and withdrawals... The indictment also specifically stated the actions of defendant Hong and 14 other defendants.

Dang Dinh Hong. Photo: KA

As reported by Nghe An Newspaper, Nguyen Thi Lam (residing in Yen Huong hamlet, Yen Son commune, Do Luong), graduated from high school, Lam studied at Nghe An College of Economics (now Nghe An University of Economics).

After graduating, Lam worked for a while as an accountant at the family business, then at the end of 2010, he started an internship at Eximbank Vinh branch.

In March 2011, Lam was hired as a treasury officer at the Do Luong Transaction Office, Eximbank Vinh City Branch, with the task of collecting and disbursing cash, checking customers' loan applications, mobilizing capital, and lending according to targets...

Still young, having worked at Eximbank for just over 5 years, but recently, people have noticed that Lam has become unusually rich by driving expensive cars, building houses, buying lots of land...

Through the work of grasping the situation, using professional measures, the Economic Police Department of Nghe An Public Security found that Lam had signs of the crime of "Abuse of trust to appropriate property" under Article 140 of the Penal Code, and project 916E was established.

On September 19, 2016, the Nghe An Provincial Police Investigation Agency issued a decision to prosecute the case. At this time, Lam was absent from the locality. Through persuasion, on September 21, 2016, Lam turned himself in and confessed his illegal acts.

On September 24, 2016, the Economic Police Department of Nghe An Police issued an emergency arrest warrant for Dang Dinh Hong for the crime of "Lack of responsibility causing serious consequences". Expanding the investigation, the police agency prosecuted the remaining defendants.

Currently, Nguyen Thi Lam is being detained at Nghe An Provincial Police Detention Center, the remaining defendants are being subject to preventive measures of being prohibited from leaving their place of residence.