Fraudulent tricks of fake female "deputy general director"

From a “ghost” project…

Bui Thi Huong Giang (born in 1977) was born and raised in Ben Thuy ward (Vinh city). Due to difficult family circumstances, Giang started working and experienced life at an early age. With her eloquence and pretty, attractive appearance, Giang was noticed by many people. At only 20 years old, Giang got married, but due to the financial constraints, no one would give in to the other, so after only a few years, Giang and her husband divorced.

Moving to the South with his first child to make a living, Giang did business everywhere and had complicated relationships with many people. Alone, raising a small child and without a stable job, in order to have money to support his life, Giang impersonated a government agency to commit fraud. Using many tricks, Giang successfully carried out his first fraud.

Giang introduced himself as “Deputy General Director and Head of Finance Department of a company under the Ministry of Construction (abbreviated as BMC Company). Knowing that Mr. K. in Thanh Chuong district did not have a stable job, Giang immediately approached him. Giang introduced that he was implementing a project to build an apartment complex and a hotel in Da Nang City and Nha Trang City. The project had been approved and during the implementation process, he needed to find some more suitable people for the positions in the company.

Giang took Mr. K. to a law office in Vinh to "sign a legal service contract". The content of the contract was related to the construction of an apartment and hotel project that Giang had drawn up. In it, Mr. K. received 600 million VND as a salary. More sophisticatedly, Giang also took Mr. K. to Da Nang City, pointed to vacant lots, and introduced these as projects that Giang was about to implement.

After returning to Vinh City, to trick Mr. K. into giving him money, Giang said: "Currently, the company needs money to use for the initial "grease" cost, but the general director is away and has not approved the advance payment yet. You lend me a hot loan to take care of the job. When the boss returns, I will write an advance payment and pay you back in full." Because of his trust, Mr. K. lent Giang a total of 550 million VND twice without writing a loan note.

Using a similar tactic, Bui Thi Huong Giang also met with Mr. Phan Duc T. (born in 1976), the Director of a local Law Firm, to sign a “legal service contract”. Giang claimed to be the Deputy General Director of the company and invited Mr. T. to be the legal advisor for the company. Like Mr. K., Mr. Phan Duc T. was also taken by Giang to “visit” the project many times with the aim of strengthening Mr. T.’s trust.

When the victim completely trusted him, Giang borrowed money from Mr. T. many times to do the project but actually spent it all. According to Mr. T.'s statement, he gave Giang 960 million VND, of which more than 400 million was transferred to the account (with invoice) and more than 500 million VND was given directly without a receipt.

In addition to Mr. K and Mr. T, many other victims also had to sadly become "unwilling" investors in Giang's apartment and hotel project, which was originally not real.

"Capital calling" trick

As soon as he claimed to be the “deputy general director” of a large company, Giang did not hesitate to invest in buying all kinds of clothes, expensive phones, and jewelry. In addition, Giang rented a car and assigned Nguyen Nhu C. (born in 1978), his lover, to drive it. Mr. C. was tasked with taking Giang to coffee shops every day to make new connections. In addition to “raising capital” for projects, Giang also boasted that he often met with leaders of the Ministry of Construction, so he could get many jobs, thereby taking advantage of the trust of the victims to take the job application fee.

At that time, Bui Thi Huong Giang was unemployed but boasted that she could apply for jobs at hospitals, promising to arrange for the daughter of Mr. Tran Dinh T. (Vinh City) to work at Vinh City General Hospital, with an initial cost of 70 million VND. Trusting him, Mr. T. gave Giang 50 million VND in advance but did not write a note. Using this trick, Giang also received money, promising to "run" for the daughter of Mr. Nguyen Van D. (residing in Nghi Phu Commune, Vinh City) to work as an accountant at a company to get 200 million VND.

In addition, Giang continued to commit fraud in Da Nang. After many times of discussing business, Giang accidentally met Ms. Nguyen Thi Kim T. (residing in Hoa Chau commune, Hoa Vang district). Knowing that Ms. T. sold foreign goods, Giang spent a large amount of money to buy expensive items many times and became a regular customer of the shop. Taking advantage of the reason of buying gifts to give to partners, Giang asked Ms. T. to buy phones and expensive cosmetics to give to the wives of his bosses. In addition, Giang also borrowed money from Ms. T. many times with many reasons of having her account locked, not being able to go to the bank, etc. with a total amount of 530 million VND.

Not only did Giang cheat people in Nghe An and Da Nang City, he also fooled an overseas Vietnamese. Through social networks, in October 2016, Giang got to know Ms. Dao Thanh Th. (living in Korea). Occasionally, Giang asked Ms. Th. to buy Korean cosmetics and send them to Vietnam for Giang. After a while, Ms. Th. introduced Giang to meet her younger brother, Dao Ngoc Tuyen, who works in construction in Hanoi and has a wife who sells cosmetics and Korean ginseng and velvet in Hanoi.

Out of respect and trust for Giang's acquaintance with his sister, plus the reputation of the deputy general director, Tuyen and his wife sold various goods to Giang on credit many times for a total of 300 million VND. It was not until they saw that Giang was wanted by the authorities that Tuyen and his wife realized they had been scammed.

8 fraud cases with billions of dong

As soon as the victims' complaints were sent to the Vinh City Police Investigation Agency, they verified to clarify the case..A working group was assigned to go to Ho Chi Minh City to investigate and verify.

To consolidate the evidence, the police decided to urgently arrest Giang, but the subject was not present in the locality. During the investigation and verification process, it was known that at the end of April 2017, Giang married another person, currently living in Hanoi but the specific residence was unknown. A working group immediately arrived in Hanoi to verify and learned that Giang and his wife were hiding in Da Nang City. Using professional measures, after a period of traveling from the South to the North, the investigators discovered that Giang and his wife were living in Thanh Tri District, Hanoi.

In early September 2017, a working group of Vinh City Police arrived in Hanoi, executed an arrest warrant, searched Giang's residence and transferred the subject to Vinh City Police.

It is known that at the authorities, during the detention period, Giang presented an alibi to deny the crime. Giang claimed that she was wrongly arrested because she did not defraud anyone of their money, and that no one could provide a receipt to prove it. When the investigators presented documents and papers related to the act of impersonating a position and the withdrawal slip from the account that the victims had transferred to Giang, the subject finally gave in and confessed to the entire act. Giang confessed that most of the moneyCheatGiang for personal expenses and for future fraudulent activities.

Through the investigation and clarification process, the Investigation Agency has verified that from February 2015 to August 2017, Bui Thi Huong Giang committed fraud with 8 victims, the total amount of money appropriated was up to 2 billion 275 million VND.

The trial of Bui Thi Huong Giang was opened in mid-August 2018, Giang was prosecuted for the crime of "Fraudulent appropriation of property". At the trial, Giang admitted all her crimes. With full evidence of the charges as well as based on the entire case, the panel sentenced Bui Thi Huong Giang to 13 years in prison and ordered her to compensate the victims.