From a victim of fraud via a phone app, a credit fund accountant became a fraudster.
(Baonghean.vn) - Needing money to supplement her online sales line, Vo Thi Tuyet (Yen Thanh) took advantage of her position as an accountant at a credit fund to borrow money to "reverse the contract", then used that money to pay off personal debts.
On March 26, the People's Court of Nghe An province opened the first instance trial of Vo Thi Tuyet (born in 1990), residing in Bao Thanh commune (Yen Thanh district, Nghe An province) for the crime of "Fraudulent appropriation of property".
It is known that in early August 2023, Vo Thi Tuyet started selling online through an application called Fastshop installed on her phone. Through that application, Tuyet performed tasks according to instructions, before participating, she paid an initial fee to join the group. After many times of transferring money, doing tasks and being paid interest immediately, Tuyet trusted and continued to participate. However, to get back the original amount, victims like Tuyet were asked to continue transferring larger amounts of money. And when the victims discovered they had been scammed, the money had all "disappeared".
Specifically, by the time she was arrested by the authorities, Tuyet had transferred more than 2 billion VND to the Fastshop app. At that time, Vo Thi Tuyet was the accountant of the People's Credit Fund of Bao Thanh commune (Yen Thanh district). To compensate for the lost money, Tuyet used the trick of borrowing money to "reverse" the loans.
According to the indictment, knowing that Ms. NTH (born in 1982), who lived in the same commune, had a large sum of money that she wanted to save at the Credit Fund, Vo Thi Tuyet took advantage of her position at work and her close relationship as a distant relative to lie to Ms. H. in order to get a loan. Vo Thi Tuyet promised Ms. H. that she would pay back the full amount of principal and interest after "reversing the contract" for 4 customers and 7 different loans.
However, in reality, Tuyet only reversed the contract 7 times for the credit contract with 2 savings books of Ms. NTB (Tuyet's biological mother) as collateral. These 2 contracts had not yet reached the maturity date, Ms. B. did not need to reverse the contract, but Tuyet still committed the above act. The money after "reversing the contract" for the loans was deposited by Tuyet into the shopping app and for personal spending. From August 28 to August 30, Ms. H. transferred money to Tuyet 5 times, with the total amount of money appropriated by Tuyet being more than 3 billion 355 million VND.
Not only that, on August 31, due to lack of money to invest in online sales, Tuyet continued to borrow 300 million VND from Ms. H. under her personal name. However, by October 2023, when Vo Thi Tuyet did not repay the loans as promised, Ms. H. reported Tuyet to the authorities.
At the trial, Vo Thi Tuyet admitted her crimes. The defendant confessed that she lost money when participating in an online trading app, so she committed the above illegal act to make up for it.
The prosecutor exercising the right to prosecute at court maintained the same viewpoint as the indictment and proposed to sentence the defendant Vo Thi Tuyet to 16-17 years in prison for the crime of "Fraudulent appropriation of property".
Considering the case as a whole, the panel of judges determined that the defendant's actions were very dangerous, causing serious impacts on the victim's family as well as disrupting social order and security. Considering the aggravating and mitigating circumstances, the panel of judges decided to sentence the defendant Vo Thi Tuyet to 15 years in prison for the crime of "Fraudulent appropriation of property" and ordered her to compensate the victim according to the law.
