Former director arrested for fraud
On the morning of July 17, Da Nang Police arrested Nguyen Thi Thuy Kieu (born in 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, 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 work at the Finance and Banking Company, Kieu provided card and loan maturity services to 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 principal and interest in full. However, Kieu later invested in real estate, stocks, and foreign exchange through the Exness electronic trading platform but suffered heavy losses. In order to recoup the lost money, Kieu concealed the loss, provided false information that she needed capital to repay the bank loan, continued to borrow from many people to pay off the debt, and threw herself into investment gambling, leading to her inability to repay the debt.
During the period from 2021-2022, by means of providing false information, Kieu borrowed,usurpof many victims with the amount of nearly 10 billion VND. Of which, the person who was most embezzled was Mr. TCQ with the amount of more than 6 billion VND, Ms. NTKL was embezzled 2 billion VND, Ms. NTCL was embezzled more than 600 million VND...
After being dragged to her 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 her debt. After receiving the victims' complaints, Da Nang City Police investigated 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 Police also issued a decision to prosecute and temporarily detain Tran Thanh Hai (born in 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.
