The guy cheated to 'run the case', received a deposit to buy land and appropriated more than 2 billion VND
(Baonghean.vn) - In more than 1 year, Vo Van Duc committed 21 acts of fraud, appropriating more than 2.3 billion VND from many victims. The methods that Duc used were to cheat people into "running cases", forging land transfer deposit contracts, and fraudulently granting "red books"...
On November 3, Nghe An Provincial People's Court opened a trial of defendant Vo Van Duc (born 1992), residing in Dien Chau district, for the crime of "Fraudulent appropriation of property".
Due to needing money for personal expenses and taking advantage of the "land fever", many acquaintances wanted to buy land, Duc thought of many ways to defraud and appropriate money.
The tricks that Duc used to defraud the victims were to receive deposits to transfer land plots that were not under his ownership; the transfer was not authorized by the land user. Although he knew he was not capable of issuing a “red book”, Duc still promised to do so, thereby appropriating money from many people in Nghe An.
In addition, this young man also cheated to "fix the sentence". Accordingly, when he learned that Mrs. Tran Thi X. (residing in Dien Bich commune, Dien Chau district) had 2 children who were being detained for "Intentionally causing injury", Duc came to her house and said he could "take care of getting the 2 brothers a suspended sentence".
In a short period of time, Duc received 210 million VND from Mrs. X. many times to "fix the case". However, Mrs. X.'s two children were still sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment. After discovering that she had been cheated, this woman asked Duc to return the money she had received.
The investigation agency determined that, from January 2021 to May 2022, through the above fraudulent acts, Vo Van Duc committed 21 acts of fraud, appropriating property of 13 victims, with a total amount of more than 2.3 billion VND.
At the trial, the defendant admitted to defrauding the victims as charged in the indictment. The defendant stated that he had spent all the money he had defrauded on his personal expenses but did not specify what he had spent it on.
The victims attending the trial requested the defendant to return all the money he had embezzled to them.
Considering the case, the defendant had some mitigating circumstances such as turning himself in, honestly confessing, partially compensating the victims, his father being a war invalid... Considering the case as a whole, the court sentenced Vo Van Duc to 17 years in prison for "Fraudulent appropriation of property". Regarding the civil part, the court ordered the defendant to return all the money he had appropriated to the victims.
