Impersonating a female Police Major General to defraud more than 14 billion VND

Dau Thi Huong is unemployed and has no connections, but always shows off that she is a Major General and Colonel of the Security Department working at a professional department under the Ministry of Public Security. With this cover, Huong has defrauded about 10 victims of a total of more than 14 billion VND.

Previously, in June 2017, the Financial Security and Investment Department of Hanoi City Police received a complaint from Mr. Nguyen Minh Tuan, Director of the Western Food and Foodstuff Export Company Limited (Western Rice Company) accusing Dau Thi Huong of defrauding Mr. Tuan's company of more than 3.1 billion VND. By promising to handle the bank loan procedures to help the Western Rice Company implement the project.

The victim's application for recruitment into the People's Public Security Forces sent to Huong

Because Huong knew many high-ranking officials, including leaders of the State Bank, Mr. Tuan believed it was real and Huong promised to help Mr. Tuan implement the Sustainable Poverty Reduction Project for the Mekong Delta, implemented by his company with an amount of 140 billion VND.

Huong set a condition that she would receive 10% of the loan amount. Accordingly, Huong asked Mr. Tuan to transfer money to her account. During the period from June 2016 to August 2016, the Western Rice Company transferred money to Huong's account 16 times with a total amount of 2.5 billion VND and once directly gave Huong 600 million VND, for Huong to cover the cost of the loan.

After receiving the above amount of money, Huong made vague promises. Mr. Tuan became suspicious and did some research himself, discovering that Huong was not a police officer as she said. Realizing that he had been deceived by Huong, Mr. Tuan filed a report to the police.

According to the Investigation Conclusion, the Hanoi City Police Department of Investigation Security has clarified that Huong impersonated a Police Colonel to defraud and appropriate the amount of money as Mr. Tuan reported. After prosecuting and detaining the suspect Huong, the Investigation Police Department continued to receive many complaints from victims such as Mr. Tran Thanh Lam, Mr. Pham Viet Bac, Mr. Nguyen Thanh Hiep, Mr. Duong Minh Luyen and a number of other individuals who also denounced that by promising to get jobs, running projects, promising to "run" for the victims' children to enter the Police Academy... they were defrauded by Dau Thi Huong, appropriating billions of dong.

Among the victims mentioned above, the case of Mr. Duong Minh Luyen, a cousin of Huong, is noteworthy. Accordingly, on July 13, 2017, Huong called Mr. Luyen and said that she could get his daughter into the police force for a cost of about 400 million VND.

Subject Dau Thi Huong (marked X) was escorted to the police station.

Mr. Luyen, because he trusted his cousin, agreed to give the money to Huong. However, up to now, after Huong received the money for almost a year without any results, Mr. Luyen has contacted Huong many times to ask for the money back but failed, so he filed a complaint with the police.

In the case of Mr. Pham Viet Bac, around September 2016, through acquaintances, Mr. Bac was introduced by Huong as "major general, deputy director of the Ministry of Public Security's security department" who was implementing many large infrastructure construction projects for the Public Security sector in Can Tho City and An Giang Province.

In addition, Huong is also considering helping to resolve the land documents that are stuck in the locality. Through the discussion, Huong promised to help Mr. Bac "run" the project to build a security secondary school 6 in Can Tho City. In October 2016, Mr. Bac met Huong at a cafe in Hanoi and directly gave 480 million VND along with the project documents to Huong.

About a week later, Mr. Bac transferred another 500 million VND to Huong. After that, after many times, Mr. Bac transferred a total of more than 2 billion VND to Huong. Each time Huong received money, she wrote a receipt and left it for Mr. Bac. In fact, Mr. Bac was scammed by Huong many times. To date, Huong has also appropriated nearly 1.5 billion VND from Mr. Bac.

There is also the case of Mr. Nguyen Thanh Hiep. Although Mr. Hiep had known Huong since 2015, he was still scammed by Huong by introducing a number of construction projects such as the An Giang Provincial Police Headquarters, the An Giang Provincial Police Fire Prevention and Fighting Police Headquarters; the Southwest Fire Prevention and Fighting Command Center and asking to find a company to participate in investing in the construction of the project.

Huong also promised to help Mr. Hiep join the police force to participate in managing the Southwest Fire Prevention and Control Center project. Along with the documents as requested by Huong, Mr. Hiep gave this woman a total of nearly 3.7 billion VND.

The case file and evidence have been transferred by the Hanoi City Police Investigation Security Agency to the People's Procuracy of the same level for handling in accordance with the provisions of law.