Surprised about the land plots that real estate tycoon Mai Xuan Dieu is selling to customers in Nghia Dan district

One plot of land sold to many people

On February 8, 2023, the authorities initiated prosecution of the accused,arrest Mai Xuan Dieu, residing in Dien Phuc commune (Dien Chau), is the Director of Phoenix Real Estate Investment and Construction Joint Stock Company, for the act of "Abuse of trust to appropriate property". Specifically, in early December 2022, the Investigation Police Agency of Nghe An Provincial Police received a complaint from Mr. QV (born in 1984), residing in Phuc Thanh commune (Yen Thanh), accusing the couple Mai Xuan Dieu (born in 1986) and Ho Thi Thanh Hoa (born in 1991), of appropriating property with a total amount of 3,920,000,000 VND. Immediately afterwards, the authorities began investigating and clarifying Mai Xuan Dieu's act of "Abuse of trust to appropriate property".

Accordingly, around May 2022, Mr. V. wanted to buy land in Nghia Lam commune (Nghia Dan). Through some real estate brokers, Mr. V. learned about 7 plots of land in Nghia Lam commune, owned by Mai Xuan Dieu and his wife, and decided to complete the procedures to buy the above plots of land. During the price negotiation process, Mr. V. agreed to buy back 7 plots of land from Mai Xuan Dieu for VND 3,920,000,000. During the period from May 5, 2022 to May 26, 2022, Mr. V. paid this amount in full to Mai Xuan Dieu and his wife.

After completing the payment, on May 26, 2022, Mai Xuan Dieu and his wife and Mr. V. signed a contract to transfer land use rights for 7 plots of land. All 7 contracts were notarized by a notary public. At the same time, Mai Xuan Dieu and his wife scheduled to complete the name change procedures by June 20, 2022 and hand over the above plots of land and the Land Use Rights Certificate to Mr. V.

However, Mai Xuan Dieu and his wife still did not fulfill their commitment. For a long time, Mr. V. continuously called and texted Mai Xuan Dieu and his wife to fulfill their commitment to hand over the land plots with the Land Use Rights Certificate or pay the debt, but Mai Xuan Dieu and his wife continued to promise and delay. Realizing that Mai Xuan Dieu and his wife continued to break their promises many times, Mr. V. suspected that these subjects had transferred the above 7 land plots to others. On December 10, 2022, Mr. V. filed a complaint with the Investigation Police Agency of Nghe An Provincial Police.

During the investigation, the police agency determined that Mai Xuan Dieu, as the Director of Phoenix Real Estate Investment and Construction Joint Stock Company, had organized the purchase of land from many people, then carried out procedures to divide the plots, separate the plots and resell them. However, after receiving the transfer money from customers, Mai Xuan Dieu did not fulfill his commitment but continued to resell them to others to appropriate the victims' money. For the plots of land that Mr. V. bought from Mai Xuan Dieu and his wife, this subject made transfer contracts to 7 other individuals with addresses in Cua Lo Town and Dien Chau District, illegally profiting in the amount of billions of VND.

After prosecuting and temporarily detaining Mai Xuan Dieu, the authorities also posted a notice to find victims of this subject. After a while, many people filed complaints against Mai Xuan Dieu and Ho Thi Thanh Hoa for fraud and property appropriation worth tens of millions of dong.

Self-drawing planning to sell land

After a period of time when Mai Xuan Dieu was prosecuted and temporarily detained, there was a lot of information surrounding this case. In particular, the information that some officials of Nghia Dan district were temporarily detained and disciplined by the Party surprised many people. Public opinion questioned why Mai Xuan Dieu could manipulate land transactions to appropriate the assets of many gullible people, and at the same time push many officials into legal trouble.

In early July 2023, we were present in Nghia Dan district, where Mai Xuan Dieu conducted many land transactions to learn specifically about the plots of land that this subject advertised for sale to gullible investors. What surprised us was that many plots of land were bought by Mai Xuan Dieu from local people, but before completing the conversion procedures, they were advertised for sale to investors.

In Nghia Thanh commune (Nghia Dan), we went to Xuan Tam hamlet, where in early 2022, Mai Xuan Dieu bought nearly 10,000m²Residential land and garden land of Mr. Nguyen Thanh Son's family. Although Mr. Son's family's land plot is only over 100m²residential land, the rest is garden land. However, after trading and buying, Mai Xuan Dieu drew up a subdivision with 45 plots to sell to customers.

Investigating in Nghia Thanh commune, it is known that although Mai Xuan Dieu drew up the planning map himself after buying the land from Mr. Nguyen Thanh Son, he has not yet notified or completed the procedures at the local level. In particular, according to Mr. Son, up to this point, Mr. Son and Mai Xuan Dieu have completed the name change procedures but this person has not yet paid the full amount for the land purchase. This puts Mr. Son's family in a "half-crying, half-laughing" situation.

It is also known that in Nghia Dan, Mai Xuan Dieu has conducted transactions on many plots of land. The transactions and sales were all carried out by notary offices in Thai Hoa Town and Nghia Dan District.

In Nghia Loc commune, Mai Xuan Dieu after buying a plot of land with an area of ​​4,402.8m²of Mr. Nguyen Van Vinh's family (Dong Hieu commune, Thai Hoa town), has divided many plots of land for sale to customers. It is worth mentioning that out of 4,402.8m²Land bought from Mr. Vinh's family, only 300m²residential land, the rest is land for growing other perennial crops. Although he has not completed the procedures to convert other perennial crop land into residential land, or even completed the procedures to donate roads… Mai Xuan Dieu still drew up a planning map to sell to customers.

Led by a local official to plot number 13, map number 103 in Khanh Tien hamlet, Nghia Loc commune, we were quite surprised to see that this plot of land was quite remote, on land where cassava was being grown, in the middle of the plot was a newly built concrete road. According to Nghia Loc commune officials, when Mai Xuan Dieu poured this concrete road, the commune made a record and suspended the construction.

Learning about the origin of this land, we learned that this was originally residential land and garden land of Mr. Hoang Hai Quang's family, a resident of Khanh Tien hamlet. In early 2022, Mr. Quang's family intended to move to the South to live with their children, so they sold this land to Mr. Nguyen Van Vinh's family. All procedures for buying and selling, changing ownership were carried out under the witness of Thai Hoa Notary Office. After Mr. Vinh bought the land from Mr. Quang, he sold it to Mai Xuan Dieu. All transaction procedures were also completed. However, after buying the land from Mr. Vinh, Mai Xuan Dieu did not complete the procedures for changing the purpose of use but sold it to the people.

Obviously, the buying and selling of land is not prohibited by law, but after buying large plots of land (small residential land area), Mai Xuan Dieu drew up the planning himself and then sold it to customers, leading many customers to mistakenly believe that the planned land had been approved by the authorities. This is the trick that this subject used to defraud customers. From this incident, once again, the alarm bell rang for people, especially in carrying out civil transactions related to land, especially land in the locality.