Hire someone to fake the red book to trick people into borrowing money
Phan Thi Thu Hoai used social media to order fake “red books” and car registration certificates. Hoai then used those documents to borrow money, appropriating more than 3.6 billion VND from the victim.
On February 20, Nghe An Provincial People's Court opened the first instance trial of defendant Phan Thi Thu Hoai (born 1976), residing in Thanh Chuong town, Thanh Chuong district, for the crimes of "Fraudulent appropriation of property" and "Using fake documents of agencies and organizations".
According to the indictment, Phan Thi Thu Hoai knew Mr. Tran Xuan V. (residing in Thanh Chuong town) and knew that this person was in the pawn and credit business.
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Around the end of March 2022, due to debt and needing money for personal expenses, Hoai came up with the idea of ordering 4 fake documents to mortgage for Mr. V. to appropriate money.
To carry out that plan, Hoai went online and ordered 4 fake "red books" and fake car registration certificates at a total cost of nearly 40 million VND.
After ordering 4 fake documents and waiting to receive them, Hoai used other people's real documents twice, taking advantage of Mr. V's trust to borrow money.
Hoai's purpose was to wait until he received the fake documents and then use them as collateral, withdrawing the real documents to appropriate Mr. V's money.
In addition, after receiving the fake documents, Hoai used the fake documents twice to defraud and appropriate money from Mr. V. The investigation agency determined that the total amount of money Hoai defrauded from Mr. V. four times was more than 3.6 billion VND.
At the trial, the defendant admitted to the crime. The defendant stated that due to debt, he came up with the trick of forging documents to defraud the victim.
The female defendant cried and bowed her head many times to apologize to the victim. She asked the court to consider reducing her sentence so that she could soon return to her children and parents.
Attending the trial, the victim requested that the defendant return the money to him and requested that the defendant be tried according to the law.
After a comprehensive review of the case, the panel sentenced defendant Phan Thi Thu Hoai to 14 years in prison for Fraudulent appropriation of property and 3 years in prison for Using fake documents of an organization. The total sentence forced the defendant to serve a sentence of 17 years in prison.
Regarding the civil part, the court ordered the defendant to compensate the victim more than 3.6 billion VND (minus 30 million already compensated).