Lost gambling, sold gold bracelet, cut hand, spread news of robbery
Having lost all his money gambling and afraid that his family would find out, 21-year-old Ly Thanh Khoa self-inflicted injuries and fabricated a story about being robbed to deceive his family and the authorities. However, this act could not escape the eyes of the police.
On the afternoon of January 5, My Xuyen District Police, Soc Trang Province summoned the subject to investigate and clarify the act of reporting false information about being robbed of property.
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Subject Ly Thanh Khoa. |
Previously, on the morning of January 5, Ly Thanh Khoa went to the police station of Hoa Tu 1 commune, My Xuyen district to report that on January 4, he was controlled by 4 strangers with knives and robbed of a gold bracelet worth about 20 million VND.
However, after receiving the report, My Xuyen District Police discovered something unusual. Through professional measures and investigation, Khoa admitted that the robbery was not real.
Previously, Ly Thanh Khoa's family gave him more than 18 million VND to pay back to an acquaintance, but Khoa used all of the money to gamble online.
Fearing that his family would scold him, Khoa took the gold bracelet he was wearing and sold it for more than 20 million VND and paid the money to an acquaintance. After that, he used a knife to cut himself many times on his stomach and neck, then went to the police station to falsely report that he had been robbed./.