Pretending to be a building repairman to rob 1 billion VND from a luxury apartment building
Viet brought a fake gun, knocked on the door pretending to be a repairman of the building to control the female homeowner, forcing her to give him 1 billion VND.
On November 26, more than a week after the Investigation Agency transferred the case file to propose prosecution, the Hanoi People's Procuracy issued an indictment to prosecute Nguyen Tuan Viet (32 years old, in Ha Dong district) for the crime ofRobbery, according to Article 168 of the 2015 Penal Code, the penalty is up to life imprisonment.
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According to authorities, Viet was a driver for a bank but had quit his job. Due to mounting debt, at the end of September, Viet came up with the idea of robbing property. Choosing a family in a luxury apartment complex on Thuy Khue Street (Tay Ho District) as his target, he prepared a plastic gun, mask, sunglasses...
Early in the morning of October 2, Viet took his "tools" and took a taxi to the apartment building above. He went up the stairs and waited on the landing between the 22nd and 23rd floors until 8:00 a.m. the same day. Then, he went to the door of an apartment and rang the bell.
Pretending to "put your shoes in the house for the repairman to do", Viet was opened the door by the female homeowner because she believed he was a technical repairman... Once inside the apartment, he said: The floor must be chiseled up to the door. When the homeowner complained that the repair should be notified in advance, Viet immediately went deeper inside and said he needed to find the dropped drill bit.
The woman said nothing had fallen into her house and asked Viet to go out so she could go to work. Viet pretended to go out and then suddenly locked the door, took out a plastic gun, put on a mask and controlled her. Viet then robbed 1 billion VND including two stacks of 500,000 VND bills.
Viet took out his phone and pretended to call his accomplices to retreat and abandon the murder plan. Before leaving, Viet asked the female homeowner to take out the camera and digital recorder and put them in his bag.
After robbing the money, Viet paid off a debt of 500 million VND to a woman, gave his mother 190 million VND to pay some people... On October 4, Viet took a bus to his friend's house in Phu Tho to play, and was arrested the next day when he returned to Hanoi.
Viet admitted to his actions, but said that when he dumped some items into the river, he mistakenly put 200 million VND in them. Currently, the police have only recovered nearly 800 million VND.
