Former director arrested for fraud
On the morning of July 17, Da Nang Police arrested Nguyen Thi Thuy Kieu (born 1978), former Director of the personal customer division of a bank branch, to investigate and clarify her behavior of fraud and property appropriation.
According to the Police Department, Nguyen Thi Thuy Kieu worked for many years at Prudential Finance Company. In August 2018, Kieu transferred to work at a Bank as a Regional Sales Director, and was fired in January 2022.
During her time working at the Finance and Banking Company, Kieu performed card and loan maturity services for customers. To have money to do the above work, Kieu borrowed money from relatives and friends at an interest rate of 1-3.5%/month.
Initially, the business went smoothly, so Kieu paid the interest and principal in full. However, later, Kieu invested in real estate, stocks, and foreign exchange through the Exness electronic trading floor but suffered heavy losses. In order to recoup the lost money, Kieu concealed the loss, and at the same time gave false information that she needed capital to repay the bank and continued to borrow from many people to pay off the debt and threw herself into investment gambling, leading to the inability to repay the debt.
During the period from 2021 to 2022, using the trick of providing false information, Kieu borrowed,usurpof many victims with the amount of nearly 10 billion VND. Among them, the person who lost the most was Mr. TCQ with the amount of more than 6 billion VND, Ms. NTKL lost 2 billion VND, Ms. NTCL lost more than 600 million VND...
After being dragged to the office by many people demanding money and forced to quit her job by the bank, Kieu sold her house and fled to Ho Chi Minh City to escape debt. After receiving the victims' complaints, Da Nang City Police conducted verification and searched for Nguyen Thi Thuy Kieu. On July 17, Kieu was arrested by the Police and transferred from Ho Chi Minh City to Da Nang for further investigation and handling according to the law.
Previously, on July 16, the Investigation Police Agency of Da Nang City also issued a decision to prosecute and temporarily detain Tran Thanh Hai (born 1995), a credit officer at a bank branch in Lien Chieu district, for fraud and property appropriation.
Previously, Hai used tricks to swap the account information of customers who needed to borrow money to embezzle 900 million VND.
