Arrest of a subject impersonating a police officer to defraud and appropriate property

The Criminal Police Department of Nghe An Province Police received a complaint from 03 victims who are currently students at a University in Vinh City. According to the complaint: At noon on June 11, 2025, when all 03 students were in their rented room, a man about 40 years old, riding a motorbike with the license plate removed, wearing a black sun jacket came to the rented room and claimed to be a police officer. The subject said that he was investigating the case and asked the 03 students to hand over 01 laptop and 02 mobile phones to serve the investigation process of the case.

After taking possession of the property, the subject quickly fled the scene.

Immediately after receiving the information, the Criminal Police Department of Nghe An Provincial Police presided over and coordinated with the Provincial Police Command Center, Ben Thuy Ward Police, Hung Dong Commune Police, Vinh City; Police of Hung Chinh, Hung Tay Communes, Hung Nguyen Town, Hung Nguyen District to conduct a search, investigation and arrest of the subject.

To deal with the authorities, during the escape after committing the crime, the subject often changed clothes and vehicles, covered his face, and moved in a zigzag manner on the streets of Vinh city.

Applying synchronous professional measures, on June 16, 2025, the Working Group of the Criminal Police Department of Nghe An Police arrested Vu Anh Tuan (born in 1985), residing in Dang Son commune, Do Luong district.

Tuan is the subject who impersonated a police officer to defraud and appropriate property of the 3 students mentioned above. Notably, Vu Anh Tuan has 5 previous convictions for many crimes, including 3 previous convictions for defrauding and appropriating property while impersonating a police officer.

Seized evidence: 01 motorbike with removed license plate, 01 laptop, 02 mobile phones and some other evidence.

At the Investigation Agency, Vu Anh Tuan confessed that because he needed money for personal expenses, he made a scenario and went to the dormitory area of ​​university students, pretending to be a police officer, asking the victims to sit in separate rooms, each in a separate room, asking them to cooperate, hand over their property to him and then appropriate it.

Currently, the Criminal Police Department of Nghe An Province Police has detained Vu Anh Tuan for the crime of Fraudulent appropriation of property to serve the investigation, and at the same time seized the evidence of the above case and returned it to the victim.

The police agency recommends that people need to be extremely alert, not panic, and not be afraid of this scam. When resolving issues related to administrative procedures, resolving criminal cases, the police force will send invitations, or have written notices to the people or assign the local police, police officers of the commune where the people live to directly invite people to the police headquarters to work.

If a similar situation occurs, people need to stay calm, not provide personal information, transfer money, hand over assets or comply with the subject's requests, promptly report to the nearest police agency for advice and support. In case of having been defrauded of property by fraudsters, the case should be immediately reported to the police agency for reception and handling according to the provisions of law.