Arrested 3 subjects throwing paint, 'terrorizing' debt collectors
Continuously in a short period of time, the group of subjects carried out 3 incidents of throwing paint at other people's houses to put pressure and collect debt.
On May 3, Tan Binh District Police (HCMC) announced that they had issued an emergency arrest warrant for a group of suspects including Nguyen Tan Loi (41 years old), Truong Vinh Kim (37 years old, both residing in District 7), and Vu Van Hung (54 years old, residing in District 3) to investigate the act of throwing paint at someone else's house and showing signs of extortion.
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The group of suspects were arrested. Photo: HCMC Police |
According to initial information, on March 16, Ms. NTT's house on Cach Mang Thang Tam Street, Ward 7, Tan Binh District had paint splashed on the front door. Four days later, Ms. T's family was splashed with paint again. Ms. T's family was worried so they reported it to the local police.
While the police were investigating the above incident, in early April, Ms. T's father-in-law's house in District 3 was also splashed with paint.
Tan Binh District Police investigated and narrowed down the group of suspects who committed the crime, including Kim, Hung, Loi and Nguyen Thi Kim Thao (50 years old, from Ba Ria - Vung Tau, living in District 7).
The police determined that in early 2011, Kim Thao had contributed 400 million VND with Ms. T. to lend money to the bank at an interest rate of 0.3%/day. However, more than a year later, this business had to stop because the deputy transaction manager of a bank branch - the person who received the money from Ms. T. - had disappeared.
Ms. T. did not have money to pay Kim Thao back, so for a long time, Kim Thao demanded the debt from Ms. T.
In mid-April 2017, Kim Thao and a number of people came to Ms. T's house and pressured her to confirm a debt of 1.2 billion VND including principal and interest.
In addition, Kim Thao forced Ms. T. to confirm an additional debt of more than 1.7 billion VND, which was the amount of money Kim Thao lent to Ms. D.KT in front of Ms. T., but Ms. T. insisted that she did not know about this.
In 2019, Kim Thao hired a debt trading company to come to her house, put pressure on her, and was able to collect 85 million VND from Ms. T.
At the end of 2022, Kim Thao asked Loi, Kim, and Hung's group to collect debt from Ms. T. with an agreement to receive 10% of the total amount collected. Thao and the group continuously threatened and demanded that Ms. T. pay more than 2.9 billion VND in the two debt confirmation papers mentioned above.
Ms. T. said that she had transferred money many times and only owed 600 million VND, and that she had nothing to do with Ms. D.KT's debt. In January 2023, Ms. T. twice transferred 500 million VND to Kim Thao, requesting a meeting to reconfirm the debt, but the two sides did not meet.
Kim Thao said that Ms. T. still owed more than 2.4 billion VND, so Kim, Hung, and Loi's group requested to carry out paint-throwing and pressure attacks to collect the debt.
