Notary arrested in connection with fraud of over 15.7 billion VND
On November 10, the police investigation agency initiated a case, prosecuted the accused, and temporarily detained Nguyen Duy Thuc - notary (born in 1972) to investigate the crime of "Lack of responsibility causing serious consequences".
Previously, the Investigation Police Department (PC01), Ho Chi Minh City Police received a petitionreport a crimeMr. HND accused a notary of committing violations in performing assigned duties, causing Mr. D to lose 15.7 billion VND.
Investigation showed that plot of land No. 706, map sheet No. 2 (currently plots No. 1 and 2, map sheet 96/BDDC 2001) in Ward 5, Go Vap District is owned by Ms. D.TT. On January 9, 2018, Ms. D.TT signed a deposit contract to sell the above plot of land to 3 people who contributed capital to buy.
However, because the above land plot is in dispute over the common path with surrounding households, after signing the deposit contract, all 3 agreed to assign Trinh Truong Giang (born in 1971, residing in Tan Phu district) to perform the service contract: "Agree to resolve the dispute over the path with surrounding households; contact the competent authority to submit documents and procedures to transfer the land plot to the names of the 3 buyers".
Upon receiving the original land documents from Ms. D.TT, Trinh Truong Giang did not perform the service as agreed but gave the land documents to Tran Thanh Hai (born in 1983, residing in District 12) for safekeeping. Trinh Truong Giang knew Mr. HND before, so he went to meet him, proposed and got Mr. D to agree to buy the land plot for 18.5 billion VND. Mr. D gave the seller, Tran Thanh Hai, the amount of 15.7 billion VND.
On October 3, 2018, Ms. TTTT (Mr. HND's wife) signed a handwritten contract to buy and sell the above land plot with Tran Thanh Hai, and Trinh Truong Giang was the witness to the contract.
Although Ms. D.TT did not sign the authorization contract with Mr. HND, Nguyen Duy Thuc, the notary, violated the provisions of the Notary Law by not requiring the notary to sign or fingerprint in front of the notary, and did not check the documents, so he did not detect it and still performed the notarization, resulting in Trinh Truong Giang and Tran Thanh Hai appropriating 15.7 billion VND from Mr. HND.
During the investigation, the Investigation Police Agency, Ho Chi Minh City Police Department initiated a criminal case and prosecuted Trinh Truong Giang and Tran Thanh Hai for the crime of "Fraudulent appropriation of property". Based on the collected documents and evidence, the Investigation Police Agency prosecuted Nguyen Duy Thuc for the crime of "Lack of responsibility causing serious consequences".
Currently, the case is being further investigated by the investigation agency to clarify the behavior of the related subjects for handling according to regulations.