Arresting female leader, eliminating black credit line, keeping debt collectors in Nghe An
(Baonghean.vn) - After lending money at high interest rates to debtors who were overdue but did not pay, Tran Thi Hong went to their homes to threaten them, even had people arrest and restrain them, and asked their families to bring money before releasing them.
Information from the Criminal Police Department (Nghe An Police) the unit has just dismantled a black credit line, arrested Tran Thi Hong (born 1977, residing in Yen Binh hamlet, Hung Dong commune, Vinh city).
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| Subject Tran Thi Hong. Photo: Anh Quan |
Around mid-2018, through the work of grasping the situation in Vinh city, detectives of Team 2, Criminal Police Department discovered that subject Tran Thi Hong had suspicious signs related to illegal credit activities.
Immediately after verifying and discovering that Tran Thi Hong's network operated in Vinh city and expanded its network to districts on Highway 1.46, the unit reported to the Chief of the Investigation Police Agency for permission to establish a special project to focus on the fight to clarify. According to police documents, Tran Thi Hong's "black credit" network began operating at the end of 2017.
With the form of unsecured loans, Hong organized many people to borrow money at high interest rates, from 3,000 VND - 5,000 VND/1 million VND/1 day to make illegal profits. Borrowers only need to write personal information in the documents that Hong gives, but do not write down the interest rate and agree that the customers must pay interest once every half month.
For customers who do not pay when the deadline comes, Hong calls to threaten, mentally intimidates, and even goes to the office or residence to humiliate them. Not stopping there, Hong also hires gangsters to "deal with" the debtors, arrests people to collect debts, and threatens their families to bring money to pay.
Faced with that situation, the Criminal Police Department established Project 218D to fight against this gang. During the investigation, on April 7, the Project Board discovered that Tran Thi Hong had illegally detained Ms. TTCL (Ha Huy Tap Ward, Vinh City) to force her to pay the principal and interest as agreed by both parties.
After repeatedly coming to her house to threaten and demand money but not meeting her, Hong called Ms. L. to come to her house to discuss the debt. However, when Ms. L. arrived, Hong had someone tie her up, threatened her and demanded that her family bring money to rescue her.
Receiving information that the victim was in danger, on the night of April 7, the Task Force divided into reconnaissance teams to simultaneously approach and block Tran Thi Hong's house to rescue the hostage. Being raided unexpectedly, Hong and her accomplices were unable to react. Through searching the suspect's residence, the Task Force seized 1 mobile phone and 10 loan papers.
Initial evidence shows that in a short period of time, Hong lent Ms. L. 346,000 million VND, illegally profiting more than 46 million VND. The Criminal Police Department (Nghe An Provincial Police) has issued an emergency detention order for Tran Thi Hong and continues to investigate and expand the case.
