The couple leading the luxury car parts sales ring
Nguyen Minh Hong, 51 years old, bought auto parts from a gang of thieves, then found the car owner and resold them for tens of millions of dong.
On May 14, Hong and her lover Nguyen Thi Kieu Loan, 45 years old, were arrested by the Wanted Team of the Criminal Police Department of Ho Chi Minh City Police for their behavior.Consumption of property obtained by others through crime.
Two suspects were identified as leaders of a ring that sold thousands of spare parts.car mirrorluxury goods stolen by gangs, busted by Ho Chi Minh City Police last August.
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| Hong and Loan at the investigation agency. Photo: Nhat Vy. |
In the middle of last year, a series of expensive car owners reported that their side mirrors were broken off when they parked on deserted roads or in suburban areas. In many cases, both mirrors were stolen, worth tens of millions of dong.
Criminal investigators ambushed and arrested Phan Minh Phuoc, 48, and many other suspects. Expanding the investigation, the police searched Nguyen Van Loc's house in District 8, seizing 2,600 rearview mirrors, many logos, auto parts...
Loc admitted to working for Hong and Loan, specializing in buying stolen property, but the couple fled. Recently, the Wanted Team discovered and arrested Hong and Loan on Ton That Thuyet Street, District 4.
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| Thousands of car mirrors were evidence at Loc's house. Photo: Provided by the police. |
These two people lived together as husband and wife, together organizing the purchase of car parts from gangs of thieves at cheap prices. Every day, Hong's men would wait in the car parts sales area on Tran Binh Trong and An Duong Vuong streets (District 5)... to wait for car owners to come here to buy replacement parts. They directly proposed to resell the items they had stolen at prices many times higher than the purchase price from the thieves.
According to investigators, spare parts for many luxury cars must be ordered from abroad, which takes time to wait, while car owners are afraid of losing their original car, so they accept spending tens of millions of dong to buy back the lost property.
