Rented a car to pawn, embezzled more than 1.7 billion VND

Nghe An Provincial People's Court has just opened a first-instance criminal trial of defendant Ngo Si Nam (born in 1989), residing in Dien Xuan commune, Dien Chau district, for the crimes of Fraudulent appropriation of property and Forgery of seals and documents of agencies and organizations.

Defendant Ngo Si Nam at the trial. Photo: Tran Vu

According to the indictment, due to his inability to pay his debts, Nam came up with the idea of ​​committing fraud by renting a car, making fake documents, and then pawning it.

From August 2020 to January 2021, Nam went to car rental shops in Nghe An province to rent 6 cars (worth more than 3 billion VND) and then hired people to forge car documents, car sales contracts and then pawned them.

The investigation agency determined that Ngo Si Nam hadusurpmore than 1.7 billion VND in the above form.

It is known that in 2015, Nam was sentenced to prison for theft of property. In August 2021, Ngo Si Nam was sentenced to 20 years in prison by the court of first instance for illegal drug trafficking. During the sentence, Nam's fraudulent behavior was discovered.

At the trial, the defendant admitted to the crimes. The panel of judges determined that the defendant's crimes were particularly serious, infringing on the property rights of others protected by law, infringing on the normal operations and reputation of state agencies, causing disorder in the locality, and causing panic among the masses.

After a comprehensive review of the case, the panel sentenced Ngo Si Nam to 16 years in prison for Fraudulent appropriation of property, 4 years in prison for Forging seals and documents of agencies and organizations; the total sentence is 20 years in prison. The defendant is required to return the money he has appropriated from the victims.

Combined with the previous 20-year prison sentence for illegal drug trafficking, defendant Nam must serve a total sentence of 30 years in prison.