Posing as a real estate broker, a woman swindled and appropriated nearly 30 billion VND

On the afternoon of October 24, speaking with reporters, a leader of the Nam Tu Liem District Police, Hanoi, said that they had initiated a case, prosecuted the accused and issued a temporary detention order for Tran Dang Thanh Tung (born in 1984, in Van Duc Commune, Gia Lam District, Hanoi) to investigate his behavior.fraud and appropriation of property

At the end of 2022, the Investigation Police Agency - Nam Tu Liem District Police received a complaint from Ms. Hoang Trang, residing in Thai Nguyen, about being defrauded by Tran Dang Thanh Tung and having nearly 25 billion VND appropriated.

According to Ms. Trang's report, around April 2022, she met Tung and was introduced by this person to work as a freelance real estate broker, having a relationship to buy a number of diplomatic apartments at the V. project in Gia Lam district, with preferential prices, called "filling the apartment" investment. If Ms. Trang makes a deposit, she will generate profits from this investment.

Tung said that there are some apartments in the V. project that the investor gives to the leaders of the company that is the investor of the project. Tung will connect the people who want to buy the apartment with the owners of this apartment. Ms. Trang is the one who pays the deposit, then after 10-13 days she can sell that apartment at a high liquidity price, making a profit of 300-400 million VND.

During the meeting, Tung also introduced Ms. Trang to some investors such as Ms. Le Thi Van. Tung also told Ms. Trang that Ms. Van had invested in some codes before and made a profit. Seeing the good profit, Ms. Trang agreed to participate in the investment.

From May 13 to June 20, 2022, Ms. Trang transferred 24 billion 680 million VND to Tung. After the first capital contribution, Ms. Trang received from Tung a part of the principal and interest from the agreement.

However, when Ms. Trang asked Tung to meet customers who wanted to buy the apartment, Tung avoided it and said that as long as there was profit, it was fine. Many times when he did not pay on time, Ms. Trang asked to see the documents related to the transfer of money to buy the diplomatic apartment, but Tung could not prove it.

On July 6, 2022, Ms. Trang asked Tung to come to the notary office to sign a loan contract for 19 billion 315 million VND. The two parties agreed on the payment deadline for both principal and interest on October 6, 2022.

But by the deadline, Tung did not fulfill his debt repayment commitments. On October 26, 2022, Ms. Trang filed a complaint against Tung for property appropriation to the police.

During the investigation, the police determined that Ms. Le Thi Van was also a victim of Tung. The suspect also told Ms. Van that Ms. Trang had invested and made a profit.

Ms. Van also believed Tung because she had met Ms. Trang in a transaction and had sent Tung 2.8 billion VND to buy an apartment. The police summoned Tung to investigate and clarify the matter.

At the police station, Tung admitted that he was not a real estate salesperson and had no relationship with people working in this field.

Due to lack of money for personal expenses, Tung took advantage of social relationships, advertised himself as a real estate broker, having relationships with investors of large real estate projects. Tung did not have any relationships.

To gain the trust of victims like Ms. Trang and Ms. Van, the first codes, Tung paid the principal and interest in full, amounting to billions of dong. With this trick, Tung appropriated nearly 30 billion dong from the two victims Hoang Trang and Le Thi Van.