Female employee performed 'magic' 30 times and stole nearly 3 billion VND from the company

Female employee's trick of "smuggling" goods out to sell

Dau Thi Lan Huong (29 years old), residing in Le Mao ward, Vinh city, is a saleswoman of Truong Giang A Company Limited, specializing in electrical equipment located in Bac Vinh Industrial Park (Vinh city). Previously, in 2017, when she was first hired by the company, Huong was assigned to another department. After nearly 3 years of working, with the experience she has gained, Huong has gradually gained the trust of the company's leadership.

Therefore, in March 2020, Huong was assigned to work as a sales transaction officer for the company. During her work, this female employee realized that there was a loophole in the company's management, which was that the control of the warehouse staff and delivery staff, taking goods out of the warehouse, and loading them onto vehicles was done based on the "temporary delivery note" created and printed by Huong.

After the warehouse is finished, the “temporary delivery note” is returned to Huong to create a “delivery note” and “delivery report” for approval by the company’s Deputy Director. At this time, the company’s leaders only check whether the “temporary delivery note” and “delivery note” match in content. In addition, there is no control or comparison of the actual goods on the vehicle with the “delivery note”.

Taking advantage of the above loophole, Huong used the trick of creating and printing "temporary delivery notes" according to the customer's order and bringing them into the warehouse area for the employees to carry out the warehouse delivery. Then, Huong created and printed a "second temporary delivery note" (called a fake temporary delivery note) with the same name as the customer who had the previous temporary note, then gave it to the warehouse staff with the reason "a new customer added an order". After the goods left the company, Huong edited and deleted the fake "temporary delivery note" on the company's sales software system to conceal her actions.

Defendant Dau Thi Lan Huong. Photo: Tran Vu

To successfully carry out her scam, the 9X female monster directed delivery staff including: Tran Van Tung (born 1993) and Le Tuan Vu (born 1993), both residing in Xuan Lam commune, Hung Nguyen district; Vo Duc Trung (born 2003), residing in Dong Hieu commune, Thai Hoa town, to commit the crime.

When the delivery staff went to deliver the goods to the customers, Huong informed them that the number of goods on the truck was more than the quantity ordered by the customers and asked them to deliver the excess goods to another address in order to appropriate them. Huong did not let the delivery staff receive the money but asked the customers to pay directly to Huong, or asked Tung to take the money and give it to her.

The investigation agency determined that from August 3, 2020 to September 21, 2020, Dau Thi Lan Huong had 30 times committed acts of appropriating property of Truong Giang A Company Limited, with an amount of nearly 2.9 billion VND. Of the amount appropriated on the above occasions, Huong paid a 10% discount to the stores and paid to Tung, Trung, and Vu: 29 million VND. Huong spent the remaining amount on personal expenses.

Delivery staff Tung, Vu and Trung, although knowing that Huong used deceitful tricks to appropriate the company's assets, still delivered the goods as directed by Huong, thus committing the crime of "Receiving property obtained by others through criminal acts".

In this case, the Director of Truong Giang A Company Limited filed a complaint: From March 2020 to August 2020, Dau Thi Lan Huong used the trick of creating fake "temporary delivery notes" to take goods out of the company and appropriated goods with a total value of more than 7.5 billion VND. During the investigation, there was not enough evidence to prove it, so the victim agreed that the investigation result showed that the amount of goods proven to be appropriated by Huong was nearly 2.9 billion VND.

The remaining amount does not have enough documents and evidence to determine that the above assets were appropriated by Huong from the company, so the Director of Truong Giang A LLC would like to withdraw the complaint. When there are enough documents, a complaint will be filed with the investigation agency for further handling.

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The first instance criminal trial of defendant Dau Thi Lan Huong for the crime of “Fraudulent appropriation of property” has just taken place, attracting public attention as quite a number of people attended the court. Because she was released on bail because she was raising a young child, Huong quietly came to court that day.

As the mastermind of the case, defendant Huong appeared quite calm throughout the trial. She clearly confessed her crimes. Fraudulent tricks such as creating fake temporary delivery notes to take goods out, directing delivery staff to agents... were also reported by this female defendant before the panel of judges. Huong stated that she had spent all the money she had embezzled from the company for personal use. After the incident was exposed, Huong proactively compensated the company's leaders 100 million VND.

The three defendants Tung, Trung, and Vu confessed that although they knew clearly that the goods were Huong's, they still sold them because of temporary greed. These defendants stated that after each successful delivery to Huong, Huong gave them money, sometimes 300,000 VND, sometimes 500,000 VND.

The investigation agency determined and defendant Tran Van Tung also admitted in court that he had consumed the company's goods 28 times with a total value of more than 2.7 billion VND. The total amount of money that Tung benefited from was 20 million VND.

Defendant Huong and accomplices at the trial. Photo: Tran Vu

Defendant Vo Duc Trung consumed 22 times the total value of the company's goods appropriated by Huong, worth more than 2.2 billion VND, earning a profit of 7.5 million VND.

Meanwhile, defendant Le Tuan Vu committed four acts of consumption with a total value of more than 320 million VND worth of goods of the company that Huong appropriated and sold, earning a profit of 1.5 million VND. All three defendants above confessed that they followed Huong's instructions and expressed remorse for their crimes.

The People's Procuracy of Nghe An province, participating in the proceedings at the trial, stated that the defendant Huong's actions had caused serious consequences for the company. The defendant had committed the crime many times, causing serious consequences, so she needed to be severely punished. The defendants Tung, Vu, and Trung, when receiving orders under Huong's direction, even though they knew that the surplus goods were invalid, but because of greed for immediate profits, they helped and sold the goods for Huong, so they also needed to be given a reasonable sentence.

After considering aggravating and mitigating circumstances, the panel sentenced defendant Dau Thi Lan Huong to 13 years in prison for Fraudulent appropriation of property. Defendant Tran Van Tung was sentenced to 10 years in prison; defendant Vo Duc Trung to 4 years in prison; and defendant Le Tuan Vu to 3 years in prison, all for the crime of Receiving property obtained by another person through criminal means.