"Monster woman" shows off her wide network of connections, scams jobs worth billions of dong

On September 10, Hanoi People's Court opened the first instance trial of Nguyen Thi Kim Dung (born 1957, in Dai Hung commune, My Duc, Hanoi) for the crime of Fraud and property appropriation under Point a, Clause 4, Article 174, Penal Code 2015.

According to the indictment, Nguyen Thi Kim Dung is a retired teacher, although she has no function and is not able to apply for a job at a medical facility, she asked for a reduced sentence and passed the re-examination of the preschool teacher exam in the districts of My Duc, Ung Hoa, Dong Anh, and Soc Son in Hanoi.

Although she was serving a sentence for Fraudulent Appropriation of Property (in 2014, Dung was sentenced by the Hanoi Court to 3 years of suspended sentence, with a 5-year probation period), from 2014 to 2015, Nguyen Thi Kim Dung continued to use the trick of providing false information that she had wide connections, was able to apply for jobs at agencies, schools, hospitals, asked for reduced sentences, prison sentences... to promise and receive money and then appropriate it from 19 victims.

Specifically, they appropriated 130 million VND from Mr. Bach Van Quang, 300 million VND from Mr. Chu Tien Lam, 200 million VND from Ms. Chu Thi Thuy Huong, 270 million VND from Bui Thu Thuy, 120 million VND from Nguyen Thi Dao, 200 million VND from Nguyen Thi Thu Thuy, 170 million VND from Vu Duc Hiep, 170 million VND from Vu Van Tuyen, 170 million VND from Nguyen Thi Trinh, 150 million VND from Nguyen Thi Tuyen, 150 million VND from Pham Xuan Thuy, 75 million VND from Nguyen Thi Thu Hang, 155 million VND from Tran Thi Quyen, 120 million VND from Bui Thanh Loan, 180 million VND from Nguyen Thi Ha, 265 million VND from Vu Van Tuu, 230 million VND from Nguyen Thi Nhi, 150 million VND from Nguyen Van Cong, 300 million VND from Hoang Duc Lieu, 200 million VND from Hoang Duc Lieu.

The total amount of money that defendant Nguyen Thi Kim Dung appropriated from 19 victims is more than 3.5 billion VND.

Up to now, Dung has only compensated Mr. Chu Tien Lam 50 million VND and returned 50 million VND to Ms. Nguyen Thi Thu Thuy. Currently, the defendant has also appropriated more than 3.4 billion VND from the victims.

At the trial, nearly 20 victims present requested the Court to severely punish the defendant for defrauding many people of a large sum of money.

The panel of judges found the defendant to have confessed honestly, however, her actions were dangerous to society, so they sentenced Nguyen Thi Kim Dung to 16 years in prison. The total sentence for the defendant for both crimes is 19 years in prison.