Former police chief prosecuted for fraud, embezzling tens of billions of dong
Knowing that the plots of land could not be granted Land Use Rights Certificates, the former head of Phu Quoc City Police and another woman still agreed to help, appropriating tens of billions of dong from many victims.
The Investigation Police Agency of Kien Giang Province Police has just completed the supplementary investigation conclusion, proposing to prosecute the accused Le Van Mot (59 years old, residing in Rach Gia City) and Nguyen Thi Hang (46 years old, residing in Nam Dinh Province) for the crime of "Fraudulent appropriation of property”.
Defendant Mot - former head of Phu Quoc City Police was prosecuted in early April 2024 and is currently serving a temporary detention measure. Meanwhile, defendant Hang was prosecuted and detained in late May 2023. Hang was previously sentenced to 4 years and 6 months in prison by the High People's Court in Hanoi for the same crime.
According to the investigation conclusion, in mid-2021, through an acquaintance, the defendant Hang met and asked Mot to help with business in Phu Quoc.
In November 2021, Ms. TTMT (living in Ho Chi Minh City) intended to buy 40 hectares in Bai Thom commune, Phu Quoc city. Knowing that this land did not have a Land Use Rights Certificate (LURC), she asked Mr. Mot for advice on whether the paperwork could be done or not. Mr. Mot said "it can be done" and introduced Hang to Ms. T. to do the land paperwork.
Trusting Mr. Mot, who was the leader of Phu Quoc City Police at that time, from November 2021 to September 2022, Ms. T. transferred nearly 22 billion VND to Hang, but Hang did not do so.
In addition, Ms. T. stated that she gave cash and gifts directly to Mr. Mot at the office many times with a total amount of 3.5 billion VND and 10,000 USD; transferred 800 million VND to Hang to lend to Mr. Mot.
During the process of receiving the land use right certificate for Ms. T., Hang and Mot discovered that the actual area of the land was 3 hectares larger than the original land area. At this time, the defendants discussed and agreed to sell it to 2 men in Ho Chi Minh City for 11 billion VND.
Hang said she withdrew this money in cash, gave Mr. Mot 7 billion VND many times and transferred it to him through many different bank accounts.
The investigation agency determined that this was a case of fraud and property appropriation committed by the two defendants Mot and Hang. Although they knew that the plots of land were forest land, managed by the state and could not be used to make land use right certificates, the two defendants still sold them and received the papers for the four victims, in order to appropriate nearly 66 billion VND.
In addition, the defendant Hang also fraudulently received land documents and borrowed and appropriated money from 6 victims, totaling more than 30 billion VND.
According to the investigation conclusion, defendant Hang appropriated more than 96 billion VND, defendant Mot is jointly responsible with Hang for nearly 66 billion VND.