Addicted to gambling, young girl swindles tens of billions of dong
To have money to gamble, Hien provided false information such as contributing money to provide financial proof services, depositing money to open a study abroad company, receiving money to send people to work abroad, and embezzling more than 14.5 billion VND.
Nghe An Provincial People's Court has just opened the first instance trial of defendant Le Thi Hien (born 1991), residing in Dong Vinh ward, Vinh city, for the crime of fraud and appropriation of property.
Le Thi Hien is the former Head of the representative office in Nghe An of Vietnam Study Abroad Joint Stock Company - SSE.
During the period from December 2022 to June 2023, Le Thi Hien repeatedly provided false information such as contributing money to provide financial proof services, depositing to open a study abroad company, receiving money to send people to work abroad... but did not do so to appropriate money from many people.
Among the victims, the one who was cheated the most money by Hien was Mr. Vo Minh T. and his wife (living in Vinh City). Hien invited Mr. T. to contribute capital to provide financial proof services for customers who want to travel, study abroad, or work abroad.
To make Mr. T. trust her, Hien created a Zalo account named "My Tour Visa" to impersonate and take information from the Zalo account of Ms. Tran Huyen My (living in Hanoi, currently working at a company that sends people abroad).
After that, Hien used Zalo “My Tour Visa” to send messages to his frequently used Zalo, then took screenshots of these messages and sent them to Mr. T. to prove that he was doing business with Ms. My. Because of his trust, Mr. T. transferred more than 31 billion VND to Hien many times.
However, during this process, Mr. T. and his wife withdrew more than 19 billion VND. In addition, Hien also paid him more than 2.6 billion VND in profits. Thus, the amount of money Hien defrauded Mr. T. and his wife was more than 9.3 billion VND.
For those who wanted to travel and work in Korea, after receiving the money, Hien spent it all without completing any procedures for them.
The investigation agency determined that the total amount of money that Hien had appropriated from the victims was more than 14.5 billion VND.
At the trial, the defendant admitted to the crime. The defendant stated that he spent the fraudulent money and transferred it to an account provided by a man named Hoang (unknown identity and background) to gamble on social networks.
The victims came to court to demand that the defendant return the money to them.
In this case, the defendant committed a particularly serious crime. The defendant committed a crime with aggravating circumstances, which included committing the crime twice or more and defrauding a large amount of money. Therefore, the court sentenced Le Thi Hien to life in prison for the crime of Fraudulent Appropriation of Property.
