Receiving 40 million VND, 8 subjects used weapons to collect debt for hire
Believing that the debtor had defaulted on nearly 200 million VND, a 50-year-old woman hired 7 "men" to collect the debt by using weapons to control and take the victim's property at sea.
On March 2, the Investigation Police Agency of An Minh District Police, Kien Giang Province, temporarily detained Nguyen Thi Dung, residing in Van Khanh Commune, An Minh District, and her accomplices to investigate the act of extortion.
According to the investigation results of the case, in mid-February 2017, Mr. Trinh Xuan Quang, residing in Van Khanh commune, An Minh district, owed Ms. Dung 173 million VND for purchasing seafood.
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| The subjects of the case. |
After many times of debt collection but Mr. Quang did not pay, angry, on February 14, 2018 (the 29th day of Tet), Ms. Dung decided to hire 7 men including: Nguyen Van Den, Tran Truong Gian, Dang Van Til, Nguyen Van Bua, Dang Van Tham, Pham Minh Tuan, Quach Quoc Sil, aged from 21 to 35, living in the same commune to collect the debt for 40 million VND, and these subjects agreed.
These 7 subjects brought 3 machetes (homemade knives) and some other weapons with Ms. Dung on a motorbike to the sea to find the debtor.
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| Take Mrs. Dung's statement. |
When they discovered that Mr. Quang was on a seafood purchasing vehicle in the sea area of Van Khanh Dong commune (An Minh), the whole gang approached and jumped onto the boat, using weapons to control and beat Mr. Quang. Then, Ms. Dung told her juniors to take 3 boxes of fresh squid weighing over 1,200kg from Mr. Quang and put them in the engine cover to take home to pay off the debt. After that, the whole gang quickly left the boat and ran to shore.
The next morning (February 15), Den and Bua went to see Mrs. Dung to get 40 million VND in wages and divided it into 5 million VND for each person, with Sil and Tuan receiving 10 million VND. After that, these subjects were arrested by the police.
