Impersonating a partner to rob the car of the company director

(Baonghean.vn) Posing as a business partner, Hai made an appointment with Mr. B., the director of a company, to discuss business cooperation. As promised, the business owner drove his car to meet Hai. The subject tricked the director into driving to a deserted area and pointed a knife at him, forcing him to stop the car, stealing the car and running into an auto repair garage in Dong Hoi City, Quang Binh to hide...

Car robbery suspect caught

Through basic investigation and understanding the local situation, Team 5, Criminal Police Department discovered a subject involved in renting a self-driving car and pawning it for money. While the case was being verified and clarified, the unit continued to receive a report from a business owner in the area about a subject stealing a car while going to do business.

Accordingly, Mr. Cao Xuan B. (born in 1976), residing in Ben Thuy Ward, Vinh City, said that he is the Director of VT Joint Stock Company headquartered in Nghi Phong Commune, Nghi Loc District. On the morning of August 6, a strange man called Mr. B.'s phone number and said that there was a business deal related to Mr. B's company's business that needed to be negotiated to sign a contract.

Trusting his new partner, Mr. B. made an appointment to meet this man that afternoon on Le Viet Thuat Street, Vinh City. As soon as he arrived at the meeting place, Mr. B. saw a young man wearing a black cap covering his face and introducing himself as the person who had called to arrange a business cooperation with Mr. B's company, so the owner of this company opened the door for the subject to get in the car. Unexpectedly, as soon as he got in the car and before he could reach the meeting place to discuss the work, the subject pulled out a sharp knife and controlled Mr. B., forcing him to drive to a deserted location and stole the car.

Subject Nguyen Van Hai (born 1984), residing in hamlet 21, Nghi Phong commune, Nghi Loc district

The special thing is that through the description of the perpetrator's identity, there are many similarities with the subject of the car rental case that Team 5 is investigating and clarifying. The Team has determined that it is very likely that these two subjects are one, so they have reported to the Department's leaders for guidance. Assessing that the perpetrator is both cunning, reckless and very daring, in order to promptly capture the subject and bring him to justice, the leaders of the Criminal Police Department of Nghe An Police have decided to establish a special project to focus forces on investigating and solving the case.

Through the investigation, the Task Force identified the suspect in the above cases as Nguyen Van Hai (born in 1984), residing in Hamlet 21, Nghi Phong Commune, Nghi Loc District. However, at that time, the suspect had disappeared. While the members of the Task Force were actively searching for the perpetrator, at around 10:00 a.m. on August 21, they received information: a stranger called Mr. B's phone number and said he came to redeem the stolen car for 30 million VND.

In the afternoon of the same day, when the subject was making a transaction to receive money at Nghi Trung market area, Nghi Loc district, he was caught red-handed by the task force.

Beware of new tricks of criminals

At the Nghe An Provincial Police Investigation Agency, the subject confessed: Due to financial difficulties, Nguyen Van Hai had the idea of ​​robbing property to get money to spend. To carry out his act, on the afternoon of August 5, Hai bought a junk SIM card and installed it in his red and black Nokia 105 phone with the intention of finding "prey". When passing by VT Joint Stock Company headquartered in Hamlet 22, Nghi Phong Commune, Nghi Loc District, he saw the phone number of Mr. Cao Xuan B. Hai immediately stopped to save the number. The next morning, Hai used the junk phone number to call Mr. B and introduced himself as a partner who was constructing the Hong Linh market project in Ha Tinh, and needed to meet to discuss the construction of a door at this market.

In order to carry out his plot, Hai had prepared a knife and hidden it in a paper bag containing X-ray film, along with a black baseball cap, a mask, and a large roll of tape. When Mr. B. arrived, Hai put on his baseball cap, a mask, opened the back door of Mr. B.'s white Nissan Navara, license plate 37C-142.18, and got into the back seat of the car.

As soon as he got in the car, Hai asked Mr. B. if the car had a GPS installed, and Mr. B. replied that it did not. Hai told Mr. B. to drive to Vinh airport. When they reached an empty lot in this area, Hai told Mr. B. to stop the car. As soon as he stopped the car, Hai pulled out a knife and pointed it at Mr. B.'s right hip and threatened: "Sit still, if you resist, I will stab you."

Two cars are evidence of the case.

Then Hai took a roll of tape and tied Mr. B's hands and asked Mr. B to sit in the passenger seat, while Hai climbed into the driver's seat and drove the car through many areas of Nghi An, Nghi Truong, Cua Hoi communes and circled back to the orange garden area of ​​Nghi Truong commune. At this point, the car ran out of oil. Hai asked a man on the road to buy oil. Hai poured oil into the car and started the engine, but it did not start. Hai opened the hood to fix it but could not. After that, Mr. B called Dong Tam auto repair garage.

At the same time, a person in the company called Mr. B. to urge him to return to the headquarters to entertain guests. Mr. B. said that the employee had arrived at the location where the car had broken down. When he arrived, Mr. B. borrowed the car to go home first. After the car was repaired, Hai got into a car with license plate 37C-142.18 to take Mr. B.'s employee back to the company headquarters and told this person that he would take a shower and then return to the party. When the employee entered the company, Mr. B. told him that Hai had used a knife to control and rob his car.

After stealing the car, Hai drove it into Ha Tinh city. On August 12, Hai knew that he could not pawn the car, so to avoid detection by the authorities, Hai drove the stolen car to Phu Chien Company Limited in Village 6, Loc Ninh Commune, Dong Hoi City, Quang Binh Province, parked it, and then took a bus home.

On August 18, Hai had the intention of extorting money from Mr. B., so Hai bought another junk SIM card and called and texted Mr. B. many times with the content: if he wanted to know the location of Mr. B.'s stolen car, he had to give 30 million VND to a location of his own choosing, along with the threat: "If you don't give the money, the car will be lost and if you report to the police, the lives of Mr. B. and his family will be threatened." Fearing that he would lose his car, Mr. B. accepted Hai's request.

At around 10:00 a.m. on August 21, Hai called a taxi driver and asked him to go to VT Joint Stock Company to meet Mr. B to collect the above mentioned amount of money and deliver it to Hai at Phuong Dong Hotel. After receiving the money from Mr. B, the taxi driver went to the meeting place but Hai changed the location many times. At 3:00 p.m. the same day, Hai asked this man to bring the money to Nghi Trung market area in Nghi Trung commune, Nghi Loc district to deliver the money. Hai was caught red-handed by the Investigation Team while receiving the money.

Through investigation, the Investigation Team further clarified: In addition to the car robbery, on May 1, 2016, Hai also went to Nguyen Du ward, Ha Tinh city to rent car 38D-002.11 from Mr. Tran Phuong Nam (born in 1982), the owner of a car rental shop. In mid-June, Hai brought this car to pawn at a pawn shop in Nghi Phong commune for 30 million VND.

Thuy Anh