Impersonating a judicial officer to book a table to appropriate property
(Baonghean.vn) - Pretending to be an officer of a judicial agency, he went to luxury restaurants to book a table to entertain guests. Then he pretended to forget to bring cash and borrowed a motorbike and money from the restaurant to buy foreign wine to entertain guests and then ran away.
Hoang Mai town police, Nghe An province said: The unit has just successfully discovered a project to fight crime.fraud and appropriation of property. Initially arrested 1 subject, seized many related exhibits.
Accordingly, through the work of grasping the local situation, Hoang Mai Town Police received information: Recently, in the locality, there was a subject impersonating a police officer, the Procuracy, the Court entering restaurants and eateries to reserve tables and defraud cash from people.
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| Evidence seized in the case. Photo: Hai Viet |
While the case was being investigated, the Town Police Department received a complaint from Ms. NTL (born in 1967), residing in Quyet Tien block, Quynh Phuong ward, Hoang Mai town, with the following content: On May 24, 2021, a scammer impersonating an officer of the Procuracy came to Song Que restaurant, in Tan Dong block, Quynh Di ward, Hoang Mai town and ordered 3 trays of food, each tray worth 2,000,000 VND. After that, the subject defrauded and appropriated property including 1 motorbike and 4,100,000 VND in cash.
After receiving the information, realizing that the fraud was extremely sophisticated and cunning, the leaders of Hoang Mai Town Police established Project No. 521LĐ, focusing on deploying forces to fight and arrest the subject.
On May 28, the Special Task Force broke up the case and arrested Nguyen Ba Khanh (born in 1991), residing in residential group 13, Thach Ha town, Thach Ha district (Ha Tinh) for "Fraudulent appropriation of property", and confiscated 2 motorbikes.
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| Subject Nguyen Ba Khanh. Photo: Hai Viet |
At the investigation agency, the subject confessed: Although he had just been released from prison and had no stable job, in order to have money to spend, Khanh used fraudulent tricks by impersonating: a police officer of Dien Chau district, Cua Lo town; an officer of the Hoang Mai town Procuracy, an officer of the Hoang Mai town Court... to book a table, then borrowed a motorbike and borrowed money to buy foreign wine to entertain guests and then appropriated it.
With such sophisticated and cunning methods and tricks, the subject carried out 6 fraud cases in the following areas: Quynh Di and Quynh Xuan wards, Hoang Mai town; Quynh Luu district, Dien Chau district, Cua Lo town in Nghe An province and Huong Son district, Ha Tinh province with the amount of more than 100 million VND.
It is known that Nguyen Ba Khanh has 1 previous conviction for "Robbery" and 3 previous convictions for "Fraudulent appropriation of property". Currently, Hoang Mai Town Police are temporarily detaining the subject to continue investigating and expanding the case.
