Former female officer swindled billions and then fled

(Baonghean.vn) - Taking advantage of the trust and gullibility of the people, in the name of a member of the Standing Committee of the Women's Union and the Farmers' Union of Quynh Thach commune, Quynh Luu district, Nguyen Thi Van defrauded and appropriated property and abused trust to appropriate property worth billions of dong.

On December 19, Quynh Luu District Police announced that the unit had just issued a decision to prosecute the case and prosecute Nguyen Thi Van (born in 1963), Hamlet 3, Quynh Thach Commune, Quynh Luu District for the act of Fraudulent appropriation of property.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Van, Quynh Thach commune, Quynh Luu district. Photo: Anh Quan

Previously, Quynh Luu District Police received a complaint from some people in Quynh Thach Commune about being scammed by Ms. Nguyen Thi Van - an official of the Women's Union and Farmers' Union of Quynh Thach Commune, of billions of VND. The District Police have established a special case to investigate and clarify the matter.

Accordingly, with the trust of the local government and people in the commune, since 2003, Ms. Van was elected as a member of the Women's Union Executive Committee and a member of the Executive Committee and treasurer of the Farmers' Association of Quynh Thach commune. Ms. Van is considered a responsible person in her work.

In 2003, the Farmers' Association of Quynh Thach Commune established a Farmers' Support Fund for people to save and invest in loans for business, especially for households with difficult conditions to borrow capital for economic development. By 2011, due to ineffective operations, the Farmers' Support Fund of Quynh Thach Commune stopped operating.

Although the Fund has been inactive for a while, Ms. Van has been encouraging people to save since 2014. To gain people's trust, she has been making fake savings books to give to people.

Not only that, Ms. Nguyen Thi Van also enticed people to use the Land Use Rights Certificate (red book) to borrow money from the bank and then give it to her for personal spending purposes. Even knowing that some households were planning to borrow money from the bank, she asked people to "check the book" to increase the loan amount, borrowing more than they needed.

After the people came forward to work with the bank, she directly borrowed from them. With this method, from 2014 until now, Nguyen Thi Van has defrauded and appropriated more than 2 billion VND from people, the most she lent was 100 million VND, the least was 30 million VND.

When the debt grew larger and larger, unable to pay in April 2017, Nguyen Thi Van quit her job. She informed the local authorities that she would be away for a while to deal with personal matters, but no one knew where she went.

Using professional measures, the police agency persuaded the subject to return to her hometown. On December 14, Quynh Luu District Police issued an order to temporarily detain Nguyen Thi Van for fraud and property appropriation.

Initially, Quynh Luu District Police clarified the act of fraud and property appropriation. Regarding Nguyen Thi Van's behavior, the investigation agency determined that Nguyen Thi Van also had signs of forging State seals and documents and abusing trust to appropriate property.

Through the documents collected by the Investigation Police, the amount of money that Ms. Van has appropriated up to now is more than 2 billion VND. Currently, the Investigation Police Agency of the District Police has issued a decision to prosecute the case and prosecute Nguyen Thi Van for the act of "Fraudulent appropriation of property" and at the same time focus on clarifying the two acts of "Abuse of trust to appropriate property" and "Forgery of seals and documents of agencies and organizations"./.

Mr. Quan