Prosecution of fake director for fraud in sending people to work abroad, appropriating more than 20 billion VND

The Criminal Police Department of Nghe An Province Police has just executed a decision to prosecute and arrest Tran Thi Hang Nga (born in 1984), residing in Dien Ngoc Commune, Dien Chau District, Nghe An Province, for the crime of "Fraudulent appropriation of property" (in the form of receiving money and documents to complete procedures for exporting labor abroad).

Accordingly, through professional work and understanding the situation, the Criminal Police Department of Nghe An Police discovered that the subject Tran Thi Hang Nga had many suspicious signs of committing fraud and appropriating property in the form of receiving money and documents for travel procedures and labor export but did not carry out the procedures.

During the verification process, the police agency determined that from the beginning of 2022 to mid-2023, although she had no function in organizing the export of labor, Tran Thi Hang Nga still introduced herself as the director of a labor export company and informed that the Russian company could do the procedures for exporting labor to other countries at a price 200 - 300 million VND cheaper than other places. Nga committed that the cases that Nga accepted to do the labor export procedures all had a high success rate, with very few failures.

With the promise of Tran Thi Hang Nga and seeing that the price Nga accepted to do the procedure was much cheaper than other companies, many brokers trusted and posted recruitment for people who wanted to travel and export labor to introduce to Nga. From the beginning of 2022 to mid-2023, hundreds of citizens who wanted to travel and export labor to countries such as Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the US... were introduced by brokers and sent their documents to Nga to do the procedure.

During the process of receiving procedures for citizens who want to travel or export labor, Russia has provided a lot of information for citizens to pay in many installments with a total amount of billions of dong, but after paying, they still cannot go as Russia has committed.

Many citizens have asked Russia to pay, Russia promised many times but still did not pay the citizens. In many cases, citizens who paid money and applied for visas to Russia were not granted visas by the embassies of other countries, but by many tricks, Russia continued to ask citizens to pay. All the money received from citizens, Russia used to pay debts and personal expenses. The police also determined that the Russian company office in Hanoi was only an hourly rental office, in the office there was only 1 set of tables and chairs (no computer, printer, documents) and there were no employees in the company.

Based on the collected documents and evidence, on May 19, 2024, the Criminal Police Department of Nghe An Police executed the decision to prosecute the accused, the arrest warrant to detain Tran Thi Hang Nga for the crime of "Fraudulent appropriation of property" as prescribed in Clause 4, Article 174 of the Penal Code. Searching Tran Thi Hang Nga's residence, the authorities seized 1 laptop, a desktop CPU, 3 mobile phones, many passports, fingerprint appointment photos for visa application, and electronic visa images showing signs of being edited.

Initially, the Police Agency determined that from the beginning of 2022 to mid-2023, Tran Thi Hang Nga approached more than 500 citizens in many provinces and cities across the country who wanted to travel and export labor abroad, introduced by brokers, with the total amount of money Nga received from the citizens being more than 20 billion VND.

To serve the investigation process and expand the case, the Criminal Police Department of Nghe An Police informs those who are victims of Tran Thi Hang Nga to quickly contact the Criminal Police Department of Nghe An Provincial Police for coordination in resolving the matter.