Prosecuted 2 subjects for fraud, appropriating more than 5 billion VND

On June 18, the Office of the Investigation Police Agency (IPA) of Nghe An Province Police announced that the unit has just issued a decision to prosecute the case, prosecute the accused, and temporarily detain two subjects, Pham Dinh The (born in 1991), residing in Giang Son Tay commune, Do Luong district, and Tran Dinh Hao (born in 1992), residing in Tan Ky town, Tan Ky district, Nghe An province, for the crime of Fraudulent appropriation of property.

Through the work of grasping the situation, the Office of the Provincial Police Investigation Agency discovered a number of subjects in the area with suspicious signs related to the behavior.fraud and appropriation of propertywith a very sophisticated method of operation. Taking advantage of the sketchy procedures for renting self-driving cars and the lack of vigilance of vehicle owners, the subjects went on social networks to hire people to make fake documents in their names to mortgage and get money to spend. To quickly investigate and clarify, the Office of the Provincial Police Investigation Agency reported to the Provincial Police Leadership and established a special project to concentrate forces and means to fight and destroy.

After consolidating documents and evidence, and synchronously deploying professional measures, on June 2, 2025, Area Team No. 3, Office of the Provincial Police Investigation Agency successfully broke the case, arresting two subjects Pham Dinh The and Tran Dinh Hao for the act of "Fraudulent appropriation of property".

During the investigation and identification process: During the time of repairing, buying and selling cars, Pham Dinh The met and got to know Tran Dinh Hao. By the end of April 2025, due to needing money to pay off debts and personal expenses, The proactively met Hao to ask him to pawn the truck (the car The was using to transport glue for hire). However, because this car was not owned by the owner and was bought from a company in another province, no place would accept the pawn. The two came up with the idea of ​​defrauding and appropriating property by providing false information and falsifying vehicle documents to create trust for individuals, owners of self-drive car rental establishments, and pawn services, to rent cars and pawn them for money to spend.

In mid-May 2025, The and Hao went to the self-driving car rental facility "TV" in Hung Nguyen town, Hung Nguyen district, owned by Mr. M., to rent a Hyundai Kona car with license plate 37K-313.XX for a period of 1 month, with a rental fee of 16 million VND/month. After that, the two subjects went on social networks to order fake documents (identity and background unknown) under the name of Pham Dinh The, then brought the car and fake documents to pawn at the pawn shop "QK" in Dong Van commune, Tan Ky district, to get 150 million VND. The and Hao divided this money for personal use.

By the above method, Pham Dinh The directly rented 6 cars at different locations and forged documents of 2 cars in his name to mortgage the property, took money for personal use, the value of the misappropriated property was more than 3.2 billion VND; Tran Dinh Hao directly rented 5 cars at different locations and forged documents of 2 cars in his name to mortgage the property, took money for personal use, the value of the misappropriated property was more than 2 billion VND.

Currently, the Office of the Criminal Police Department of Nghe An Province is continuing to investigate and expand the case.