Received real estate procedures, cheated more than 4 billion VND from customers
Tran Thanh Binh accepted to make land division documents but forged documents to defraud the landowner of more than 4 billion VND and has just been prosecuted by the police.
On November 24, the Ho Chi Minh City Police Department initiated a criminal case, prosecuted and detained Tran Thanh Binh (born in 1991, residing in District 6) to investigate the act of property appropriation.
According to the investigation, around October 2020, Binh was asked by Mr. Tran Duc (41 years old, residing in District 10) to contact the competent authorities to complete the procedures to separate 2 plots of land in Binh Chanh district.
After receiving the necessary documents, Duc went online to download the relevant documents, edited the information, and sent them via Zalo message to the landowner.
During the contacts, Binh relied on fake documents, stating that he was working on each stage, to ask Mr. Duc to transfer the fees.
After that, Binh continued to go on social networks to search for information on making fake documents and then sent the information and content Mr. Duc requested to make the documents to separate the plot.
Believing that Binh would help him complete the land division, Mr. Duc transferred money to Binh's account many times, nearly 6 billion VND.
In February 2023, Mr. Duc asked Binh to bring the documents directly for him to check, but Binh did not. Worried, Mr. Duc went to check agencies such as: Binh Chanh District Tax Department, Binh Chanh District Land Registration Office and found out that Binh did not come to do the above procedures.
On May 8, Binh returned two certificates of land use rights, house ownership rights and other assets attached to the undivided land to Mr. Duc. At the same time, he returned the amount of 1.7 billion VND.
Binh did not pay the remaining amount and avoided paying, so Mr. Duc filed a complaint with the Ho Chi Minh City Police Department.
During the investigation, the police determined that Binh used all fake documents for the purpose of fraud and did not complete any procedures related to dividing the land plot for Mr. Duc.
