Woman arrested for defrauding over 1 billion VND in online gambling schemes.
Due to business losses, Nguyen Thi Linh defrauded a local resident of over 1 billion VND to gamble online.
The Quang Tri Provincial Police Investigation Agency announced that it has issued a decision to prosecute and execute an arrest warrant against Ms. Nguyen Thi Linh (39 years old, residing in Vinh Linh commune, Quang Tri province) for the crime of "Fraudulent appropriation of property".
Initial investigations revealed that due to business losses leading to debt, Linh participated in online gambling on the website luck8.com hoping to earn money to pay off her debts.
To obtain funds for gambling, Linh fabricated information about needing money for business, thereby borrowing from Ms. Nguyen Thi Yen (also residing in the same locality). Using this tactic, Linh defrauded Ms. Yen of over 1 billion VND. After repeatedly demanding the money back without success, Ms. Yen filed a complaint against Linh with the police.
At the investigative agency, Nguyen Thi Linh admitted to all of her criminal acts. The case is being further investigated and clarified by the Criminal Investigation Department of the Quang Tri Provincial Police.
Previously, the Hue City People's Court held a first-instance trial and sentenced the defendant Ha Xuan Khanh (born in 1983, residing in Hue City) to 9 years and 6 months in prison for fraud and appropriation of property.
According to the case file, due to a close friendship spanning over 10 years and their past work in the banking sector, Dang Nguyen Thanh T. (born in 1991) and Khanh's couple lent each other money for their fine art woodworking business and bank loan repayments. In February 2023, due to kidney failure, Khanh resigned from his job at the bank on an unpaid basis and underwent dialysis treatment at Hue Central Hospital.
During the Lunar New Year holiday in 2024, while hospitalized, Khanh used his personal phone to browse Facebook for news. At this time, advertisements for the online gambling website "Bet88" were running on his Facebook page. Wanting to gamble to relieve stress, Khanh downloaded the "Bet88" app to his phone, created an account, and linked it to his bank accounts to gamble. Having lost all his money, Khanh defrauded a close friend, who used to work in banking, of 7.7 billion VND to gamble for "relaxation."
