Ordered a phone online, paid with counterfeit money.
Having 48 million dong in counterfeit money, Loi's group ordered phones and arranged for the delivery to take place in a secluded location at night.
The Hanoi Criminal Police Department has just initiated legal proceedings and detained Trieu Dinh Loi, Duong Quoc Son, Trieu Dinh Tho, and Trinh The Nam on charges of various crimes.Robbery, circulation of counterfeit money, and possession of counterfeit money.
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| The counterfeit money was seized by the police. |
According to the police, starting in November 2018, Nam used 3 million VND to buy 10 million VND in counterfeit money in denominations of 200,000 and 500,000 VND. In total, this young man bought 48 million VND in counterfeit money (more than 10 million VND in real money) and gave it to Loi to order phones online.
Lợi instructed the delivery to be to secluded locations where payment could be made with counterfeit money, and he successfully carried out three such scams. If the delivery person discovered the counterfeit money, Lợi and his accomplices would snatch the goods and speed away.
In late December 2018, detectives from the Anti-Robbery Team arrested Loi and his accomplices at a guesthouse in Thanh Tri district, recovering a mobile phone they had not yet managed to sell.
