The scam of the famous hui owner in Do Luong

The Investigation Police Agency of Do Luong District Police has just issued a decision to prosecute and detain Vo Thi Huong (born in 1961), residing in Luu Quang hamlet, Luu Son commune, Do Luong district, for the crime offraud and appropriation of property.

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According to her statement, in early 2018, Vo Thi Huong borrowed money from the bank and had to pay it back. In April 2018, Vo Thi Huong had the ward money stolen by a thief, which she had collected from the ward, about 200,000,000 VND (Ms. Huong said that when the theft happened, she did not report it to the police and did not tell anyone, including her family members). Because she was unable to repay the bank loan and the ward money was lost, she set up new ward networks to find a way to rationalize the appropriation of money from the participants, from which she used the money to pay off the debt.

The lowest average ward price is 300,000 VND, the highest is 2,000,000 VND. Photo: Vuong Linh

On March 20, 2019, Vo Thi Huong established a 2,000,000 VND/person/month group with 14 playing slots, including 10 people from Luu Son commune, 1 person from Da Son commune (participating in 2 slots), and the remaining person from Dang Son commune, Do Luong district.

With 24 years of experience as a ward manager, Ms. Huong clearly understands how the ward operates and the psychology of the participants, so she thought of a way to embezzle money.

For those who asked Ms. Huong to bid for them, Ms. Huong would estimate and write down the amount of money to make sure they won, then announce it publicly as usual. After the person's bid won the bid, Ms. Huong would collect the money from the participants. However, when the person who asked her to bid asked if they had won, Ms. Huong would say she had not won and then take the money for herself.

When Mrs. Huong collected money from the ward, to avoid being discovered, if someone asked who won the ward, Mrs. Huong would give a name so that they would believe that there were still people winning the ward.

The honest villagers, knowing that Ms. Huong had been the ward chief for decades, almost no one suspected anything. With the above method, Vo Thi Huong appropriated the money of 10 ward members in the ward chain on March 20, 2019, with a total amount of more than 218,000,000 VND.

Trust is abused

Vo Thi Huong is quite famous in the local association activities, so she just needs to call and many people agree to join. Some people proactively come to her to ask to join the association, some even have to argue hard before Huong agrees to let them in.

Subject Vo Thi Huong at the police station. Photo: Vuong Linh

The people who participated in her gangs were mainly people in the hamlet, in Luu Son commune, who were small traders or farmers. With the "reputation" gained over decades of "being in the profession", taking advantage of the honesty and gullibility of the people from the beginning of 2019 to March 2020, Vo Thi Huong appropriated money from more than 10 gangs she owned, hundreds of victims with about 1 billion VND (Vo Thi Huong herself admitted that she could not remember the exact amount of money she had defrauded from the participants due to incomplete records). Huong said she used this money to pay off debts, make up for the money the gang had stolen, and for personal expenses.

Among Vo Thi Huong's victims, some lost several million, others lost tens of millions; for families in the countryside, that is certainly a huge sum of money, sometimes equal to a year's savings.

The case is under further investigation.

Wang Ling