The failed escape of the fraud couple

Huynh Van Nga and Ho Thi Ngoc Nga, a couple, used their identities as the brother-in-law of a former chairman of the board of directors of a large bank in Ho Chi Minh City to defraud businesses of hundreds of billions of dong, then fled to the United States.

Couple Huynh Van Nga and Ho Thi Ngoc Nga

At approximately 10:30 p.m. on November 19, at the arrival terminal of Tan Son Nhat International Border Gate (Ward 2, Tan Binh District, Ho Chi Minh City), the US Department of Homeland Security Investigations and representatives of the US Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City handed over Ho Thi Ngoc Nga (49 years old) to the General Department of Crime Prevention Police of the Ministry of Public Security. Nga is a wanted suspect of the Interpol Office, Ho Chi Minh City Police and the General Department of Crime Prevention Police of the Ministry of Public Security.

Seizing hundreds of billions of dong

Previously on July 9, as reported by Tuoi Tre newspaper, the US Law Enforcement Agency also handed over to the General Department of Crime Prevention Police, Ministry of Public Security, Huynh Van Nga (47 years old) - a suspect in a fraud of hundreds of billions of dong who was prosecuted by Ho Chi Minh City Police under Decision No. 285/50 and wanted decision No. 285/60 on April 7, 2011.

According to the investigation agency's records, in less than two years, from the beginning of 2009 to the end of 2010, through steel purchase and sale contracts, Nga and her husband received money from many different businesses but did not deliver the goods or delivered the goods in multiple installments. Taking advantage of trust and borrowing in their personal names, Nga and Nga appropriated money from many customers in Districts 2, 3, Binh Tan, Phu Nhuan, Thu Duc (HCMC), Binh Duong Province... with an amount of up to hundreds of billions of VND. At the same time, relying on the name of the sister-in-law of the former chairman of the Board of Directors of a large bank in HCMC and the name of the director and deputy director of Thien Son Phu Production and Trading Company Limited, Nga and Nga took advantage of the trust of a private enterprise (in Binh Duong) and an individual (in District 3) to commit a scam of nearly ten billion VND.

Escape plan

In order to prepare for their escape plan, Nga and her husband tried to send their four children to other countries under the guise of studying abroad. Nga then “magically” obtained a fake divorce decision issued by the People’s Court of Mo Cay Nam District (Ben Tre) on March 4, 2009, signed by Judge Nguyen Van Kieu. With this fake divorce decision, on August 20, 2010, Nguyen Van Nga left Vietnam for the United States as a tourist, after the four children had left the country in various ways. On December 17, 2010, Nga used the divorce decision to register her marriage with Ms. TTTT, residing at 6446, Lithonia, Georgia. Nga was granted marriage certificate No. 197 on December 21, 2010. On June 16, 2011, Nga was granted a green card through marriage to a US citizen.

After Mr. Nga successfully entered the US, at the end of December 2010, Ho Thi Ngoc Nga also escaped from Vietnam by land through Cambodia. She then entered the US and lived with her husband in Georgia. On May 11, 2011, at the request of the Vietnamese investigation agency, the Interpol Office issued a red notice No. A-2846/5-2011. At the same time, the General Department of Crime Prevention and Control of the Ministry of Public Security and the Interpol Office of Vietnam also contacted the US Department of Homeland Security Investigations to request the arrest and deportation of Nga and Nga to Vietnam. Huynh Van Nga and Ho Thi Ngoc Nga were then arrested on March 21, 2013. In April 2013, Nga confessed to the crime of lying on immigration papers. Nga was detained for 4 months until July 8, when she was extradited to Vietnam.

Meanwhile in Vietnam, Mr. Nguyen Hong Dan, Chief Justice of the People's Court of Mo Cay Nam District, affirmed that in March 2009, the People's Court of the district did not accept any family marriage cases related to Ho Thi Ngoc Nga and Huynh Van Nga. At the same time, there was no divorce decision No. 152.2009/QST-HNGD. Mr. Dan also added that the format of this document was not in accordance with form No. 9 issued under Resolution No. 02/2006/NQ-HDTP dated May 12, 2006 of the Supreme People's Council of Judges. Mr. Dan stated that in 2009, the People's Court of Mo Cay Nam District only issued 129 decisions and judgments, not No. 152. In addition, Mr. Dan also affirmed that up to now, there has been no judge named Nguyen Van Kieu working at the People's Court of Mo Cay Nam District as the person who signed the divorce decision No. 152.

Faced with the above evidence, on August 20, 2013, the US Court ordered Ho Thi Ngoc Nga to be deported from the US and extradited to Vietnam on November 19, ending nearly three years of this fraudulent couple's escape from the law.

According to TT0