Female con artist swindles billions of dong from two male directors.
Two male directors handed over billions of dong and documents to Nguyen Thi Huong Dieu to process the paperwork for sending more than 70 people to South Korea. However, they later discovered they had been scammed.
The Hanoi People's Procuracy has just completed the indictment against defendant Nguyen Thi Huong Diu (33 years old, from Hung Yen province) for the crime of fraud and appropriation of property. According to the indictment, in 2019, Diu established Duy Bach Company, operating in the field of consulting on completing visa application procedures.
This company is not authorized to send people abroad for labor export, nor is it licensed to operate international travel services, yet Dịu still provided false information about having many connections and being able to obtain visas from the South Korean Embassy to send people for tourism and labor export.
Around August 2023, Mr. Vu Thanh Hai (Director of HTP Company) asked Diu about a South Korea tour itinerary. At that time, Diu searched for information on social media and provided Mr. Hai with a 5-day South Korea tour itinerary. Diu also mentioned having many connections, being able to obtain visas from the South Korean Embassy in Vietnam, and being able to organize tours to South Korea for clients.
The "female scammer" informed Mr. Hai that the cost of exit procedures for a tour from Ho Chi Minh City to South Korea was 11,500 USD (equivalent to over 268 million VND), of which 1,000 USD was for visa application fees, and the rest was a deposit to prevent the tourist from overstaying in South Korea, which would be returned when the tourist returned to Vietnam.
After reaching an agreement with Dịu, Mr. Hải informed his staff that HTP Company would be organizing a 5-day, 4-night tour to South Korea at a cost of 370 million VND, so that they could find interested customers.
On October 9, 2023, Mr. Le Anh Hoa (Director of Global Company) learned that Mr. Hai and HTP Company were organizing tours to South Korea, so he contacted them to inquire about procedures and sign a memorandum of understanding.
For his part, Hoa received over 11 billion VND from 35 clients with the promise of obtaining visas and handling the procedures for their trips to South Korea. Hoa transferred over 11 billion VND to Hai along with 35 visa application documents to HTP Company employees to process the clients' travel to South Korea.
Upon receiving the money, Hai transferred over 5 billion VND to Dieu to apply for visas for 71 clients (including Hoa's group and Hai's clients). After receiving the money, Dieu did not contact the clients to obtain visas as promised. The remaining amount, over 4.6 billion VND, was embezzled by Dieu and spent entirely on personal expenses.
According to the indictment, in addition to defrauding Hai and Hoa, Dieu also defrauded two other people of nearly 500 million VND. Previously, in June 2022, the Hanoi City People's Court sentenced Huong Dieu to 14 years in prison for the crime of fraud and appropriation of property.
