Impersonating a Criminal Police Department officer, demanding 1 billion VND to 'ignore' the gambling case

Accordingly, through the work of grasping the situation in the area, the Criminal Police Department's detectives discovered that in Bac Kan province, a group of people approached people, claiming to be officers working at the Criminal Police Department, Ministry of Public Security, which is investigating the online gambling case and giving information that these people were related to the above case.

To create more trust, the subjects forged a summons signed and stamped by the Director of the Criminal Police Department and showed it to the victim. Then, they proactively contacted by phone to ask people involved in the case to pay money to avoid being prosecuted.

After discovering the source of information, the Criminal Police Department of Bac Kan Provincial Police directed the reconnaissance force to organize verification. Thereby, it was determined that on October 19, the group of subjects would receive 1 billion VND from 2 victims in Bac Kan City. The Criminal Police Department reported to Lieutenant Colonel Le Hong Giang, Deputy Director, Head of the Investigation Police Department of Bac Kan Provincial Police and proposed to conduct an inspection.

At about 1:00 p.m. on October 19, at a coffee shop in Duc Xuan ward, Bac Kan city, the Criminal Police Department's working group discovered Nguyen Van Hau (born in 1992), residing in Dong Le village, Xuong Lam commune, Lang Giang district, Bac Giang province and Nguyen Tien Nam (born in 1993), residing in Ben 1 residential group, Dac Son ward, Pho Yen city, Thai Nguyen province, receiving money from Ms. BTTT (born in 1998) and Ms. HNL (born in 2003), both residing in Na Ri district, Bac Kan province.

As soon as they saw the police, the suspects ran away. Nguyen Tien Nam threw the two bags of money he was holding onto the street, but was restrained. Nguyen Van Hau got into the car that HTTh (born in 1993), residing in Na Ri district, Bac Kan province, was waiting in, and fled the scene.

The working group has conductedmake a recordarrested the criminal Nguyen Tien Nam in the act and coordinated with the People's Procuracy of Bac Kan province to organize a crime scene investigation. During the inspection, the police discovered and temporarily detained on Nguyen Tien Nam 1 Iphone 13 Pro max mobile phone; 1 brown leather wallet containing a small amount of money, 1 Citizen ID card in the name of Nguyen Van Hau; 1 "CAND ID card" No. 128-111 in the name of Nguyen Van Hau; unit: Department of Investigation Police on social order signed by Major General Tran Ngoc Ha, Director; 1 party membership card in the name of Vu Hoang Thai and many other documents related to Nguyen Van Hau... At the same time, temporarily detained on the street 2 bags of money left by Nguyen Tien Nam.

After fleeing the scene, Nguyen Van Hau and HTTh went towards Cho Don district. The Criminal Police Department of Bac Kan Province Police contacted Th., asking Th. to present himself for questioning. Th. then agreed. When he reached Dong Thang commune, Cho Don district, Th. got off the car to catch a bus back to Bac Kan city. Hau continued to drive away. When he reached Yen Thuong commune, Cho Don district, he was arrested by the Traffic Police of Cho Don district.

During the inspection of the Toyota Fortuner car with license plate 98A-422.72 driven by Nguyen Van Hau, the police force discovered that it had a flip-up license plate, with license plate 30H-111.66 on the back; the front grille had 3 flashing lights for priority vehicles; the car had a walkie-talkie and a siren installed, and the front windshield had flashing lights for priority vehicles.

The working group temporarily seized from the car a leather wallet containing more than 1.6 million VND; 1 citizen identification card and 1 B2 driver's license in the name of Nguyen Tien Nam; 2 glass stickers issued by the Ministry of Public Security for special vehicles of the Traffic Police force; 1 entry card to the Thai Nguyen Provincial Police Agency; 1 CAND sign in the name of Nguyen Van Hau; 62 unused white envelopes addressed to the Department of Investigation Police on crimes of corruption, economy, and smuggling of the Ministry of Public Security; 2 lapel pins of the CAND force; 1 summons from the Criminal Police Department signed by the Director - Major General Tran Ngoc Ha, the summoned person is Ms. BTTT.

During the process of working with the Investigation Agency, Nguyen Van Hau stated that the documents that the police had temporarily detained were all fake and that he himself was not an officer in the People's Public Security Forces. Regarding the act of receiving money from BTTT and HNL, the subject admitted that he was the one who directly carried it out, but gave only partial statements and did not explain the roles of the other subjects involved. Nguyen Tien Nam and HTTh did not admit to assisting Nguyen Van Hau. However, based on the victim's statements; the data and electronic evidence that had been collected, there was enough basis to conclude that the above 3 subjects were a group, together going to Bac Kan province to commit the act of appropriating the victims' property.

Currently, the Criminal Police Department of Bac Kan Province Police is focusing its forces to investigate and expand the case, in which it will consolidate documents to issue an Emergency Detention Order, a Decision to temporarily detain Nguyen Van Hau; and a Decision to temporarily detain Nguyen Tien Nam for the act of "Fraudulent appropriation of property" according to the provisions of Article 174 of the Penal Code 2015 (amended and supplemented in 2017). Regarding HTTh, we are continuing to fight to clarify, when there is enough basis, we will apply preventive measures to serve the investigation.