Apply to be a bus conductor to double the profit from selling fireworks

Recently, Nghia Dan District Police discovered that a number of individuals in Nghia Dan District and Thai Hoa Town colluded to buy fireworks from southern provinces at cheap prices and then transported them to Nghia Dan District and Thai Hoa Town to resell for profit. Faced with this situation, Nghia Dan District Police established Project 210P to combat the situation.

Through the investigation, the Task Force discovered that Tran Van Nam (born in 1990), residing in Nghia Tien Commune, Thai Hoa Town, had a previous conviction for intentionally causing injury. Nam went directly to the southern region to buy fireworks and then transported them to Nghia Dan, Thai Hoa, colluding with a number of other subjects in the area to sell and make a profit.

To disguise and conceal his crime and avoid the authorities, Nam applied to work as a bus assistant for a bus company running from Quy Hop district to Ho Chi Minh City and vice versa, so that he could both have a job and conveniently transport and trade fireworks.

Subject Tran Van Nam and evidence. Photo: Quynh Trang

Nam bought firecrackers at a cheap price from a subject when passing through Quang Tri province, hid the firecrackers in cardboard boxes (the type commonly used to contain fruits, candies, etc.), sealed them tightly like regular boxes of goods that customers send to the bus station or that passengers take, and mixed them with the luggage and goods of the passengers.

When the passenger bus where Nam worked as a busboy arrived at Nghia Dan district, Thai Hoa town, Nam called his accomplices to receive the boxes of fireworks like normal goods, then took them home to hide and sell.

Assessing that on January 20, Nam would transport the fireworks by passenger bus and then hand them over to his accomplices for the section passing through Nghia Thang commune, Nghia Dan district, the task force arranged forces to divide into many working groups to go offline, monitor, ambush, and block.

At around 10:40 a.m. on January 20, when Tran Van Nam got off the bus and took the cardboard boxes to hand over to another person, the task force conducted an inspection and caught Tran Van Nam and his accomplice Nguyen Van Sy (born in 1981), residing in Nghia Tien commune, Thai Hoa town. The authorities temporarily seized 3 cardboard boxes that Nam gave to Sy, containing 24 boxes of 36-round firecrackers with a total weight of 36kg.

At the Investigation Police Agency, the subjects confessed to all their actions. Realizing that the amount of money earned from selling fireworks was high, the subjects bought them to resell for illegal profit. If they successfully sold them, the two subjects would earn double the amount of money spent on buying fireworks. These two subjects colluded and traded with each other and successfully sold them many times.

Currently, Nghia Dan District Police are detaining Tran Van Nam to continue investigating and expanding the case.