Hire someone to pretend to be husband to sell land
Nguyen Phuong Thanh, 35 years old, hired someone to pretend to be her husband, authorized him to use his name on land documents, then mortgaged them to embezzle 2.7 billion VND.
On October 15, Thanh was temporarily detained by Bac Lieu Provincial Police for the following acts:Fraudulent appropriation of property; Forgery of seals and documents of agencies and organizationsandUse fake seals and documents of agencies and organizations.
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The investigation agency read the arrest warrant against Thanh. Photo: Trong Nguyen |
According to the investigation agency, Thanh has been divorced for many years, but around the end of May, she hired someone to pretend to be her husband and sign a contract authorizing her to be the owner of a 470 m2 plot of land in Bac Lieu City.
Thanh then forged the land use right certificate to mortgage it to a local man for 700 million VND. In reality, Thanh and her ex-husband sold the land to someone else.
She continued to usefake land paperspawn for another person to get 2 billion dong.
Initially, Thanh admitted his actions.