Debt, 16 year old girl was imprisoned and beaten

Unable to pay a debt owed by a female karaoke bar employee, two young men kidnapped her, beat her, and forced her family to bring ransom money to...

On August 18, the Criminal Police Department (PC45, Ho Chi Minh City Police) announced that it had arrested Lam Ba Tho (25 years old, from Binh Phuoc) to investigate the acts of "illegal detention" and "extortion of property". In addition, PC45 is investigating Cong Thuan Vuong (23 years old, residing in District 4), Tho's accomplice.

Police are investigating the accomplice who caused the kidnapping and debt collection. Illustrative photo

According to the case file, T (16 years old, from Binh Phuoc) was a waitress at a karaoke bar on Nguyen Thai Son Street (Ward 3, Go Vap District, Ho Chi Minh City). During his time working at the karaoke bar, T owed Tho and Vuong 19 million VND. Tho and Vuong repeatedly asked for the debt but T kept delaying it. Angry at not being able to collect the debt, Tho and Vuong planned to kidnap T to force T's family to pay the debt.

On the evening of August 11, Tho and Vuong went to a karaoke bar, forced T onto a motorbike and took him to many places in Ho Chi Minh City to force T to pay his debt. On the morning of August 13, the two subjects took T back to house number 53 Pham Van Dong Street, Ward 3, Go Vap District, and took turns beating and threatening T. The two subjects asked T to call his family to bring money to pay his debt before allowing T to leave.

Receiving T's phone call, T's family agreed to pay Tho and Vuong 15 million VND in advance. Tho and Vuong agreed but threatened to kill T if T's family did not do as agreed. Faced with the above situation, T's family reported it to the Go Vap District Police.

At around 2:00 p.m. on August 14, Tho and Vuong drove T to Gia Dinh Park (Phu Nhuan District) to get money and hand over the person, but were stopped by Go Vap District Police. Tho was arrested, while Vuong quickly escaped.

According to CAND