Arrested young man impersonating police officer, illegally buying and selling bank accounts
A young man claimed to be a police officer to ask bank card holders to cooperate in withdrawing money from their accounts, and illegally bought and sold nearly 400 bank account information.
On January 23, Hai Chau District Police (Da Nang City) initiated a case, prosecuted and temporarily detained Nguyen Tan Ton (born 2003, residing at 14 Hoa Khanh, Buon Ma Thuot City, Dak Lak Province) to investigate the act of "illegally collecting, storing, exchanging, and trading information about bank accounts".
According to initial investigation, the Cyber Security Department (Da Nang City Police) discovered a bank account showing signs of receiving illegal money, so they coordinated with the bank to freeze this account for investigation.
On January 11, the Cyber Security Department coordinated with the Criminal Police Team, Hai Chau District Police to discover that Huynh Dinh Hieu (born in 1994, residing in Hoa Cuong Bac Ward, Hai Chau District, owner of the above bank account) was going with Nguyen Tan Ton to a bank branch in Hai Chau District to request the account to be unfrozen and withdraw more than 1 billion VND.
Through investigation, the police determined that after the above bank account was frozen, Nguyen Tan Ton was hired by a subject named "Vu" to go to Da Nang to find the account owner to go to the bank to unfreeze the account in order to withdraw the "dirty" money and promised to pay 71 million VND.
Upon arriving in Da Nang, Ton contacted Huynh Dinh Hieu and claimed to be a “police officer”, asking Hieu to cooperate in withdrawing money. However, while doing so, both were summoned by the police for questioning.
In addition, from March 2023 to present, Nguyen Tan Ton has also collected and purchased nearly 400 other people's bank account information to sell via social networks.
Continuing to expand the case, the police also summoned Ngo Thanh Manh (born in 1997, residing in Hoa Chau commune, Hoa Vang district, Da Nang city) - the person who bought about 108 bank accounts (including Huynh Dinh Hieu's account) to sell to a person named Sang (residing in Binh Dinh province) through social networks.
