Many people lost billions because of a group of fake police officers calling to set up blackmail traps.
(Baonghean.vn) - By impersonating police officers and telecommunications employees, Nguyen Van Phi and his accomplices defrauded more than 3.4 billion VND in 8 days. While 3 accomplices were arrested and sentenced, the ringleader, Phi, escaped. Phi was later wanted and arrested.
On September 4, Nghe An Provincial People's Court opened a first-instance criminal trial of Nguyen Van Phi (born 1990), residing in Bao Dai commune, Luc Nam district (Bac Giang province) for the crime ofFraudulent appropriation of property.
According to the investigation agency's documents, because of his wife's relationship with Pham Dinh Luan, Nguyen Van Phi called Luan to ask him to find someone to open an account at banks, make an ATM card and pay 3 million VND per card.
Luan contacted and, together with Nguyen Huu Thu, Pham Dinh Phi, and Pham Cong Phuong, opened 15 accounts and obtained 15 ATM cards from various banks. Luan then sent the cards to Taiwan for Nguyen Van Phi and received 3 million VND for each ATM card.
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| Defendant Nguyen Van Phi. Photo: Tran Vu |
Luan also discussed with Thu and Pham Dinh Phi to make fake ID cards to continue opening accounts, creating ATM cards and then selling them to Nguyen Van Phi to avoid detection by the police.
Then, from Taiwan, Nguyen Van Phi called Luan, Thu, and Pham Dinh Phi to agree that when the victims' money was transferred to their accounts, they would withdraw the cash. Nguyen Van Phi took out 15% to 20% of the embezzled money and divided it among Luan, Thu, and Pham Dinh Phi.
Within 8 days from August 21, 2017 to August 29, 2017, by impersonating telecommunications and police officers, the subjects defrauded and appropriated property of 6 victims in provinces and cities across the country such as Nghe An, Nha Trang... with a total amount of more than 3.4 billion VND. Of which, the victim who was defrauded the most money was Ms. Bui Thi Hong T. (Nha Trang City) of nearly 2.5 billion VND, the least victim was defrauded of nearly 170 million VND.
The trick used by the subjects isimpersonationtelecommunications staff, informed of unpaid bills. Despite the victims' efforts to explain, these subjects informed them that the case would be transferred to the police for investigation.
After that, their phones received calls ending in 113. The other end of the line claimed to be police officers investigating cases of money laundering, drug trafficking, and child trafficking, which were suspected to be related to money in the victims' bank accounts. The subjects then asked the victims to secretly transfer money to assist in the investigation. Most of the victims were scared and continuously received phone calls related to the police, so they followed the subjects' instructions.In November 2018, Nghe An Provincial People's Court brought three defendants Pham Dinh Luan, Nguyen Huu Thu, and Pham Dinh Phi to trial and sentenced Luan to 15 years in prison, Thu to 14 years in prison, and Pham Dinh Phi to 8 years in prison for fraud and appropriation of property.
Nguyen Van Phi was wanted and arrested later. At the trial on September 4, 2020, defendant Phi admitted to his crime. Considering that the case had many details that needed to be considered, the panel of judges decided to extend the deliberation.
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