'Blazing' about knowing high-ranking officials, tricking them into running for public office

Boasting of being acquainted with high-ranking officials, Linh tricked a series of acquaintances into "running for civil service exams" to appropriate property..

On September 20, Ninh Kieu District Police (Can Tho City) announced that the investigation agency had issued a decision to prosecute the case, prosecute the accused and temporarily detain Nguyen Vu Linh (25 years old, residing in Hoa An commune, Phung Hiep district, Hau Giang province) to investigate the act of Fraudulent appropriation of property.

According to the investigation agency, Linh did not have a stable job, so in order to have money to spend, he came up with the idea of ​​defrauding and appropriating money from people who wanted to apply for jobs in state agencies. Linh learned about the civil service recruitment exam at the Department of Home Affairs of Can Tho City and planned to defraud a series of victims who were acquaintances and former classmates.

In June 2015, Linh met her classmate at the University of Information Technology, Ms. Lam Thuy Ngan. After many conversations, Linh learned that Ms. Ngan was planning to apply for the civil service exam at the Department of Home Affairs of Can Tho City, so she bragged about having connections with many high-ranking leaders, and was able to help job applicants pass the civil service exam but had to pay a “bribe”.

The suspect was detained.

Linh told Ngan that it would cost 25 million VND to pass the civil service exam. With her friends, Linh reduced the fee to 20 million VND and wrote a receipt for 5 million VND in advance. Linh promised to receive the remaining amount when the results were out. After that, Ngan introduced another friend, Huynh Thi Diem Quyen, who also wanted to take the civil service exam to work in a state agency. Linh told Quyen that the cost of passing the exam was 30 million VND, and Linh received 10 million VND in advance.

In early October 2015, Ms. Ngan and Ms. Quyen took the civil service exam at the Examination Council of Can Tho University of Technology. In February 2016, Ms. Ngan and Ms. Quyen went to the website of the Department of Home Affairs to check the results and found out that both of them had failed. Ms. Ngan and Ms. Quyen contacted Linh again and received the reply that "everything has been taken care of". After that, Linh asked the two of them to pay an additional 15 million VND and promised that the civil service exam results would be sent to their personal emails. After that, Ms. Ngan, her father, Ms. Quyen and her husband met Linh at a coffee shop and paid the full amount.

After receiving the money, to gain the victims' trust, Linh accessed the website of the Department of Science and Technology of Can Tho City, downloaded the notification forms, along with signatures and stamps, to make notifications and decisions on accepting jobs after the results of the 2015 civil service recruitment exam were available, and sent them to Ms. Ngan and Quyen's personal emails. Linh then continued to forge the civil service recruitment decisions, set a date for the work, and sent them to the two victims.

However, near the date stated in the decision, Linh repeatedly called Ms. Ngan and Ms. Quyen to postpone the appointment to another day. Suspecting Linh of fraudulent behavior, on September 8, 2016, the two victims went to the Department of Science and Technology of Can Tho City to ask for information about the recruitment, only to find out that they had been scammed and reported it to the police. Through investigation, it was found that in addition to the two victims above, Linh had scammed 6 other people to appropriate an amount of 10 to 15 million VND.

At the investigation agency, Linh admitted that with the above trick, he had defrauded 8 victims who wanted to take civil service exams, appropriating 112 million VND.

According to CAND