Fake documents ring, helping girls from the countryside go abroad to sell sex

Many customers in this large-scale immigration document forgery ring were identified as girls who frequently traveled abroad to "sell their bodies".

From strange coincidence

In early 2014, Ms. Nguyen Thuy Dieu went to the Immigration Department, Ho Chi Minh City Police (Nguyen Du Street, District 1) to apply for a passport to travel abroad.

Through processing the documents, the officers were quite surprised to discover that there was a person named Nguyen Thuy Dieu, with matching personal information, currently in Malaysia.

Do Huu Cong (left) and Huynh Thi Le Hang (right) when arrested

During the interview, Ms. Dieu reported that she had never left the country and did not understand why there was such a strange coincidence; but she also said that a few years ago she had lost her ID card.

Because of suspicion that someone forged Ms. Dieu's documents to leave the country, the Immigration Department sent the case to the Criminal Police Department, Ho Chi Minh City Police, requesting coordination to investigate and clarify.

Through investigation and surveillance, recently when discovering that Nguyen Thuy Dieu had just "landed" at Tan Son Nhat airport, criminal investigators ambushed and arrested her.

Through investigation, this person confessed to being Huynh Thi Le Hang (born in 1987, from An Giang). Hang reported that she had entered Malaysia many times to work in restaurants, provide erotic massages, etc.

However, many times, airport staff in Malaysia saw the passport full of immigration information and did not allow Hang to enter the country.

Because she wanted to continue working abroad, in April 2012, Hang went to the Immigration Department of Ho Chi Minh City Police. There, a man of unknown origin helped her forge exit papers for $500.

Although Hang did not clearly state who the man was, through the description, criminal investigators were able to investigate and arrest Do Huu Cong (aka Cong “black”, born in 1962, residing in Binh Thanh District, with 2 previous convictions for “robbery”).

Eleven other subjects related to this line were arrested.

To the super big line

The subject Cong Doan, who had completed his second prison term, did not have a stable job. At this time, Cong grasped information that many girls who made a living in some Asian countries with sensitive jobs had difficulty entering the country because they were closely scrutinized, and many were even denied entry.

Do Huu Tho - a master at making fake documents by hand that are very difficult to detect with the naked eye

From then on, Cong began to make a living by approaching people in need to forge immigration documents.

In Hang's case, Cong openly accepted a package contract of 500 USD. After taking the 200 USD in advance, Cong bought an ID card with the name Nguyen Thuy Dieu, then peeled off Dieu's photo and pasted Hang's photo on it.

Then Cong made many fake documents under this name, gave them to Hang and instructed her to make a passport according to regulations.

However, Cong Do only acts as a broker to make a profit, not directly forging documents. Receiving documents from customers, most of whom are girls working abroad in sensitive professions, Cong transfers them to the above contacts.

Cong's 'superiors' were not strangers, but subjects such as: Do Huu Tho (born in 1975, from Dong Nai, had a previous conviction for "forging documents of agencies and organizations"), Truong Thi Bich Thuy (born in 1965, from Tien Giang; temporarily residing in Binh Thanh District), Phung Quoc Thai (born in 1978, residing in District 5)... who were the leaders of a huge document forgery ring that the criminal police department eliminated in early November 2013.

The ring was led by Tho - a master in the profession of forging documents, and Thuy - a retired teacher, who had agents working in front of the Immigration Department (Ho Chi Minh City Police), the US Consulate in Ho Chi Minh City... to approach people in need.

Once there is a contract, Tho and Thuy will directly counterfeit it using machines and chemicals right in the rented room.

In addition to forging immigration documents, Tho and Thuy's ring also forged various degrees. They even forged and sold fake documents such as health certificates, blood test certificates, ID cards, etc. to "long-legged girls" working in restaurants and karaoke bars in Ho Chi Minh City to deal with interdisciplinary inspection teams or the police.

Searching the suspects' homes, the police seized hundreds of stamps from the police, People's Committees, departments, and agencies of provinces and cities across the country, and seized many machines, equipment, and chemicals used in the technology of forging documents.

Currently, Ho Chi Minh City police are expanding the investigation of the case.

According to Vietnamnet