The testimony of the person who swapped more than 1,000 old lottery tickets, the victims were all elderly and disabled people.
Pham Ngoc Vinh confessed that due to football betting, he got into debt, so he came up with the idea of swapping old lottery tickets he had taken from disabled and elderly people to resell to get money to pay off his debt.
On September 26, Bien Hoa City Police (Dong Nai) took statements from Mr. Pham Ngoc Vinh (52 years old, from Quang Ngai) to investigate and clarify the act of fraud and property appropriation.
The victim was Ms. Le Thi Thuan, 46 years old, a disabled person from Khanh Hoa province, currently residing in Tan Tien ward, Bien Hoa city.
At the police station, Mr. Vinh confessed that he gambled on football, which led to debt. He planned to have money to continue gambling and pay off his debt, so he came up with the idea.lottery ticket appropriationof the disabled and elderly to resell to pay off debts.
This person also confessed that, using similar tricks, he had defrauded 3 other people of more than 1,000 lottery tickets in Bien Hoa City (Dong Nai) and committed a number of other scams in neighboring provinces and cities, totaling more than 10 cases. The victims that Mr. Vinh targeted were the elderly and disabled people who sold lottery tickets on the streets.
As reported, at around 6am on September 24, Mr. Vinh drove his SH Mode motorbike with license plate 76G1-323.75 to Bien Hoa City with 470 old lottery tickets with the intention of swapping them. When he arrived at Lac Cuong intersection (Tan Tien ward, Bien Hoa City), he discovered a disabled woman named Thuan selling lottery tickets alone. This person stopped to ask to buy them. After that, Mrs. Thuan immediately gave Mr. Vinh a stack of 530 lottery tickets, Mr. Vinh bought 8 tickets and paid Mrs. Thuan.
Taking advantage of Mrs. Thuan not paying attention, Mr. Vinh exchanged the 470 old lottery tickets he was carrying for 522 lottery tickets drawn on September 24. After that, this man escaped, went to Mr. LQ's lottery counter (Thuan An City, Binh Duong) and sold them for more than 4.2 million VND (8,000 VND/ticket).