Using the trick of 'buying and returning money', a woman embezzled more than 1 billion VND
(Baonghean.vn) - Tan Ky District Police have now issued a decision to prosecute the case and prosecute Nguyen Thi Lanh (born in 1976), residing in Thai Binh province. At the same time, they continue to verify and arrest accomplices in the customer fraud case that occurred in Tan Ky town.
Previously, on September 13, 2023, a number of people claiming to be employees of Viet Anh Investment and Trade Development Company Limited, located in Ha Dong District, Hanoi, rented Dai Phu Gia Hotel, Block 4, Tan Ky Town, Tan Ky District to organize a seminar to show gratitude to customers. After renting the location, this group of people distributed invitations to attend the seminar mainly in Tan Ky District and neighboring areas.
On September 14 and 15, 2023, at Dai Phu Gia Hotel, the above group organized a workshop called Customer Appreciation Workshop with more than 200 people, mainly the elderly, participating.
At the workshop, the subjects distributed low-value vouchers, initially only from 100,000 - 200,000 VND, people were allowed to buy products and items and were refunded by the subjects as initially committed.
However, after gaining the trust of the people, the above group of subjects offered to sell many other products such as household appliances, functional foods... (with actual value under 1 million VND) at prices many times higher than the value of the products (some products cost up to 10 million VND) and also committed to refunding the money as before. However, taking advantage of the people's carelessness, the subjects fled after receiving the money.
Receiving the complaint from the people, Tan Ky District Police investigated and verified to clarify the content of the incident. After a period of grasping the situation, the Investigation Police Agency of Tan Ky District Police issued an order to detain Nguyen Thi Lanh in an emergency for deceiving customers. Lanh was the ringleader, directly purchasing goods from Viet Anh Investment and Trade Development Company Limited, then directing employees to rent a location to organize seminars, thank customers and sell products to make illegal profits as mentioned above.
To serve the investigation, the Investigation Police Agency of Tan Ky District Police has issued a Decision to prosecute the case and prosecute Nguyen Thi Lanh for the crime of "Deceiving customers" under Clause 2, Article 198 of the Penal Code and at the same time apply preventive measures and temporary detention against Nguyen Thi Lanh to serve the investigation, prosecution and trial process.
Initially, the police determined that the amount of money the subjects had defrauded customers and illegally profited was more than 1 billion VND.
The Tan Ky District Police Investigation Agency also summoned Viet Anh Investment and Trade Development Company Limited for a meeting. The company representative confirmed that Nguyen Thi Lanh had ordered the company’s products, and then sold these products to whom, where, and by what method, the company did not know.
Currently, the Investigation Agency of Tan Ky District Police is continuing to verify and handle the subjects according to the provisions of law.
