Female director defrauded people to export labor, embezzling nearly 20 billion VND
Tran Thi Hang Nga is the director of a company located in Hanoi. The company has nothing to do with sending people to work, travel, or study abroad, but Nga still bragged that her company had successfully sent many people abroad to embezzle nearly 20 billion VND.
On July 29, Nghe An Provincial People's Court opened the first instance trial of defendant Tran Thi Hang Nga (born 1984), residing in Dien Chau commune (former Dien Ngoc commune), Nghe An, for the crime of "Fraudulent appropriation of property”.
The indictment shows that from 2021 to 2023, due to debt and need for personal expenses, Tran Thi Hang Nga had the intention of defrauding and appropriating property by promising to send people to work abroad. This woman used many deceitful tricks to gain trust and appropriate property of victims in many provinces and cities.
Specifically, Nga established a company with an address in Hanoi, with herself as director. Although the company does not have the function or responsibility of sending people to work, travel, or study abroad, Nga still provided information that her company had successfully sent many people abroad.
After receiving the documents from the victim, Nga sent some documents and some money to 3 other people to arrange fingerprinting schedules, interviews with foreign embassies and book plane tickets.
After the workers had their fingerprints taken and were interviewed for a visa, Nga uploaded the labor contract and visa image online, then asked someone to edit the information to match the worker's identity.
In addition, Nga also falsified information on the airline tickets to make the victims trust and continue to deposit money to Nga. After receiving the money, Tran Thi Hang Nga did not complete any procedures to send the workers to work abroad or study abroad, but used the money for personal expenses and to pay off debts.
The investigation agency determined that Tran Thi Hang Nga had defrauded and appropriated the assets of 14 victims and related people to complete procedures for 242 people to go abroad to work, study, and travel to Korea, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, etc. with a total amount of more than 19.5 billion VND. Among the victims, the person who was defrauded the most money was nearly 6 billion VND.
At the trial, the defendant admitted his crime and expressed remorse. The defendant stated that due to debt and needing money to pay off the debt, he provided false information to defraud the victims.
The defendant presented his difficult circumstances, his wife and he were separated, and he was raising three children alone, asking the court to consider reducing his sentence.
Before the trial took place, the defendant had recovered more than 8 billion for the victims. Attending the trial, the victims asked the defendant to return the money to them.
After a comprehensive review of the case, the panel sentenced Tran Thi Hang Nga to 18 years in prison for fraud and appropriation of property. In terms of civil matters, the court ordered the defendant to return the money to the victims.