Chinese gang of safe-breaking thieves across Vietnam sentenced
This gang specializes in a series of safe-breaking cases at toll stations and companies from North to South, appropriating nearly 4.7 billion VND.
On August 18, the People's Court of Ho Chi Minh City held a first-instance trial and sentenced a gang of thieves led by Ma Ting Di (born 1977, Chinese nationality), along with many accomplices who committed many cross-Vietnam thefts.
Accordingly, Ma Ting Di was sentenced by the People's Court to 16 years in prison, Cen Guang Neng (born 1981), Ning Rong Teng (born 1990), both Chinese nationals, to 14 years in prison. The subjects Nong Hong Te (born 1985, Chinese nationality) to 5 years in prison, Nguyen Van Thao (born 1967, residing in Cao Bang) to 10 years in prison, Hoang Quoc Huan (born 1993, residing in Cao Bang) to 3 years in prison for the crime of "Theft of property".
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| Trans-Vietnam thieves group in court. |
For defendant Huang Ding Piao (born 1986, Chinese nationality) 13 years in prison for the crime of "Theft of property" and 1 year in prison for the crime of "Possession of drugs", Piao received a total of 14 years in prison.
As for Hoang Minh Long (born in 1968, residing in Cao Bang), the father of defendant Huan, he was sentenced to 1 year in prison for the crime of "Failure to report a crime".
The panel of judges believes that the defendants' actions were serious, committed multiple times and were organized, so the above sentence should be imposed.
According to the indictment, around April 2018, Di invited Huang Ding Piao, Cen Guang Neng, and Ning Rong Teng, all Chinese, to enter Vietnam many times illegally through Cao Bang province.
Then, Di contacted Thao, Huan, and Long to go to the provinces to steal.
On April 24, 2018, Di asked Long to rent a self-driving car for Huan to take the group to Ho Chi Minh City. On the way, the group looked for vulnerable companies to steal from and promised to pay Huan 100-200 million VND if they succeeded.
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On the evening of April 27, 2018, while passing through the Cho Dem toll station on the Ho Chi Minh City - Trung Luong highway, the group broke in and pried open a safe to take money and put it in a sack. While they were priing open another safe, they were discovered by the camera surveillance staff. Te was caught by the staff along with many exhibits. The two remaining thieves abandoned the property and ran away. The police determined that the amount of money seized at the scene was more than 2.8 billion VND.
In early August 2018, Di's gang continued to enter Vietnam and hired a driver to take the group and their tools to different provinces to steal.
On the evening of August 13, 2018, this gang broke into a toll station in Gia Loc district, Hai Duong, broke the safe, and successfully stole more than 1.1 billion VND.
On the evening of September 10, 2018, they broke into another company in Ha Nam but did not get any “spoils of war”, the safe was empty. Afterwards, the group was arrested on the way.