Nghe An: A retired official and his son produced fake documents and seals.
(Baonghean.vn) - As a retired official, knowledgeable about the law, but because of greed, regardless of the law, Nguyen Thi Huong has twice participated in a ring of counterfeiting seals and documents of agencies and organizations. Even more sadly, Huong's son, Tran Dang Khuong - a Post and Telecommunications engineer, also participated in this ring.
In early April 2016, the Investigation Security Department (Nghe An Provincial Police) received information about a large-scale ring of counterfeiting seals of agencies and organizations. The ringleader was a woman over 60 years old.
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| Subject Nguyen Thi Huong with evidence. |
During the investigation and evidence collection process, the detectives discovered a group of people who forged degrees to legalize the procedures for overseas labor export for those who wished to work. Considering that the illegal acts of the subjects were extremely serious, nearly a dozen detectives and investigators were deployed to isolate and screen suspicious subjects, especially those with criminal records, and newly graduated engineers who did not have jobs.
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| Tools used to produce fake documents and seals. |
According to the assessment of the Investigation Security Agency, in order to "invent" fake documents of agencies and organizations, the subject must understand information technology, how to operate printers, mix colors... especially how to make copies to fake documents.
From the above assessment, after nearly 2 weeks of investigation, using professional measures, the Investigation Security Agency discovered a subject secretly handing over graduation certificates from a number of high schools and a number of other diplomas and certificates (suspected to be fake diplomas and certificates).
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| Fake seal samples. |
The plan to set up a net to catch the above subjects was deployed. On April 13, the Security Investigation Department's working group caught Hoang Dinh Dong (born in 1973), residing in Nghi Hoa Ward (Cua Lo Town) in the act of trading fake diplomas for a number of students who wanted to apply for studying abroad in Korea.
According to the suspect's statement, Dong was the one who found the people who needed to make fake documents and then reported it to Ms. Nguyen Thi Huong (born in 1954), residing in Tan Hoa block, Ha Huy Tap ward, Vinh city. All the fake documents were then given by Ms. Huong to her son, Tran Dang Khuong.
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| Fake diplomas seized. |
Based on Hoang Dinh Dong's testimony, at around 8:30 p.m. on April 14, a working group of the Investigation Security Department ambushed and caught Nguyen Thi Huong red-handed while she was handing over a number of fake documents (high school diploma, diplomas from several colleges and universities) to customers. Thi Huong stated that all of the above diplomas were fake.
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| Authorities check evidence. |
It is known that in 2006, Nguyen Thi Huong also participated in a ring of counterfeiting seals and documents of agencies and organizations and was sentenced to 18 months of suspended imprisonment by the People's Court of Nghe An province. It was thought that after 10 years, Nguyen Thi Huong would truly regret her mistake, but unexpectedly, this woman reoffended once again. Even more sadly, Nguyen Thi Huong also dragged her son into the law...
| Searching Nguyen Thi Huong's residence, the investigation agency seized 3 printers, 1 laptop, as well as various types of fake diplomas, fake seals made by computer, such as the seal of Nghi Loc 4 High School; the seal of the People's Committee of Hung Loc commune; the seal of the Department of Education and Training of Nghe An province; the seal of a regiment in the army; certified copies, signatures of leaders... along with various types of blanks and hundreds of other documents related to the forgery of documents and seals of agencies and organizations. |
Thanh Vinh
