Extremely strange tricks of debt collection gang

Hired to collect debts, the subjects threw dirty substances into people's houses, urinated, wrote graffiti on the gates, beat the debtors or their relatives... As a result, the group was prosecuted and detained by the police for extortion.

Recently, the Thai Nguyen City Police, Thai Nguyen Province, received a report from the public about some people throwing dirty substances into their homes, including a mixture of waste, shrimp paste, paint, etc., and threatening and urinating in front of people's houses to collect debts, so they started investigating and verifying the information.

Using professional measures, at around 8:00 p.m. on July 14, the Criminal Police Team of Thai Nguyen City Police discovered a group of people with signs of debt collection and loan sharking at Nguyen Oanh pawn shop, located at Group 3, Cam Gia Ward, Thai Nguyen City, led by Do Van Nguyen (42 years old), commonly known as Nguyen Oanh, residing in Group 3, Cam Gia Ward, the shop owner.

Thai Nguyen City Police read arrest warrants for 5 subjects

The remaining subjects include: Nguyen Hoai Nam (28 years old), residing in group 13, Phu Xa ward; Hoang Quoc Quan (33 years old), Nguyen Cuong Anh (32 years old), both residing in group 3, Cam Gia ward; Nguyen Khac Quang (32 years old), residing in group 10, Phu Xa ward, Thai Nguyen city and Phi Dang Nghiep (22 years old), residing in Phong Xa hamlet, Huong Thuong commune, Dong Hy district, Thai Nguyen province...

Through the investigation, the subjects confessed to having committed 8 debt collection cases for pawn shop owner Do Van Nguyen. During the inspection of the pawn shop, the Thai Nguyen City Police Department temporarily seized a car, 2 motorbikes, some knives, spray paint cans, shrimp paste, waste oil, gloves, plastic cups... which were the means used by the subjects to throw into people's houses to threaten and collect debt.

It is known that this debt collection gang was fed and slept at the pawn shop by Do Van Nguyen, and paid an average of 300,000 VND/person/day. But in general, on rainy days or when they collected a lot of debt, the amount of money the subjects received could be up to 450,000 VND/person/day. Nguyen also assigned a clear debt collection schedule for each subject like the work schedule of an officer. Each time they went to collect debt, the subjects not only threw waste and urinated but also threatened and beat the debtors or their relatives.

Debt collection schedule of subjects

For example, Mr. NTC (35 years old), residing in Tan Lap ward, Thai Nguyen city, borrowed a sum of money from Nguyen in the form of a loan shark and paid a part, but did not pay the rest and fled. According to Mr. C's family, the amount was 5.2 million VND, while the subjects declared it was 12 million VND. Nguyen hired Nghiep to collect the debt, at first Mr. C still paid in full, however, by the end of June, Nghiep went to his house but did not meet anyone. On June 30, Nghiep invited Quang to go to Mr. C's house to collect the debt, but only met Mr. C's parents. The two subjects threatened that if by the evening of the same day he did not bring the money to pay, they would "beat him to death" the next day.

A few days later, still unable to collect the money from Mr. C, at around 8:00 a.m. on July 3, Nguyen ordered the whole group and a subject named Hung to go to Mr. C's house to collect the money. 7 people came on 2 motorbikes and a car, carrying a can of paint and a lock, so that if they could not collect the money, they would spray paint on objects and lock the door to threaten the family. When entering the house, Nguyen met Mrs. S, Mr. C's mother, forcing her to pay the money for her son within 3 days.

Mrs. S said that she could not borrow money in such a hurry, so the group took some votive paper and lit it on fire to threaten to “burn it”, while cursing and beating her. Even when Mr. C’s father ran out to stop them, the group chased them out, then continued to threaten Mrs. S and threw a plastic sandal at the victim’s left eye. The group then went out to get the key to lock Mrs. S’s gate, then used paint to write and scribble on the wall at the gate; continued to threaten to beat Mrs. S to death if she went out…

Panicked and afraid of the group's threatening actions, Mrs. S. had to run around to borrow money to pay on behalf of her son because she was afraid that the subjects would return to beat, humiliate the family or assault her son. As for her husband, he asked someone to report to the police, so even though they had agreed to pay in advance, the debt collectors, seeing that there were many people in front of Mrs. S.'s house, suspected that the police force was involved, so they did not dare to come to collect the debt.

Upon receiving the report, the Thai Nguyen City Police Department sent officers to receive reports of crimes and establish a case file to investigate and verify the case according to the provisions of law.

During the investigation of the scene, the investigation agency collected evidence left by the subjects such as votive paper, keys, letters, graffiti painted on the wall of the house gate... as well as the victim's statements and traces of Ms. S being beaten and having a bruise on her left eye. Thai Nguyen City Police summoned 5 subjects including Hoang Quoc Quan, Nguyen Luong Anh, Nguyen Khac Quang, Nguyen Hoai Nam, Phi Dang Nghiep to work, and the subjects confessed to the above incident.

On July 21, the Investigation Police Agency of Thai Nguyen City Police issued a decision to prosecute the case, prosecute the accused, and temporarily detain 5 subjects for the act of property extortion. On the same day, the People's Procuracy of Thai Nguyen City approved the order to prosecute the accused and temporarily detain the above 5 subjects. Currently, this group is being detained at Thai Nguyen Provincial Police; at the same time, Thai Nguyen City Police continue to consolidate the case file and handle the remaining subjects.

Evidence of the case

According to CAND