Pretending to be a prison officer to deceive prisoners' families
The police have issued an order to detain and arrest the detainee in an emergency case for the act of "Fraudulent appropriation of property" against Le Tuan Dung (born 1997).
Le Tuan Dung (residing in Thanh Hoa City, Thanh Hoa) had a criminal record for the crime of "Fraudulent appropriation of property”. Through searching and exploiting information on social networks such as Facebook, news sites of provinces and cities in general and “Tin Tuc Son La” in particular to discover posts related to cases, suspects, defendants... arrested, prosecuted, indicted, and tried by functional units; Le Tuan Dung established relationships with relatives and friends of suspects, defendants, and prisoners who were being detained, then used a Facebook account named “Tuan Dung” to pretend to be a person who had committed a crime or was being detained, serving a sentence to contact their families to complain about hardship, repent, and ask their families to pay for a reduced sentence.
When the family agreed and trusted him, Dung gave them the phone number he used and introduced it as the contact number of the prison or detention center staff so that the family could contact him. After being contacted by the family of the detainee or prisoner, Dung pretended to be an officer of the prison or detention center to ask the family to transfer money to the account number he used to arrange for the prisoner to be transferred to a lighter job and receive support for consideration of a reduced sentence.
Using the same method as above, Le Tuan Dung contacted many people, some of whom he trusted to transfer money. In Son La province alone, it was verified and clarified that in August 2024, Le Tuan Dung appropriated 22 million VND from the family of prisoner LVT and 8 million VND from the family of prisoner VVT.
The case is currently being investigated and expanded by the Son La Provincial Police Department; at the same time, the method and means of the crime of the subject are announced. If anyone is a victim of the subject Le Tuan Dung, please quickly report to the Son La Provincial Police Department or contact directly with Investigator Nguyen Manh Tuan, Phone: 0962.984.184 for instructions.
