On April 13, the People’s Court of Vinh Long province, opened a trial for defendant Pham Van Cung (born in 1982, living in Tam Binh district, Vinh Long province) and Nguyen Tuan Si (born in 1968, driving a motorbike taxi, living in Vinh Long city). for the crime of “fraudulent appropriation of property”.
According to Tien Phong, Pham Van Cung is accused of taking advantage of the prestige of the temple and the orphanage care center (Tam Binh town, Tam Binh district, Vinh Long province) and accomplices in fraud to appropriate more than 67 billion VND. , in which a famous female singer was scammed 13 billion dong.
Citing information from the trial, the Ho Chi Minh City Law Newspaper said that defendant Cung admitted his crime in accordance with the indictment. According to the defendant Cung, before enrolling in the Buddhist church, the defendant fell into insolvency due to his extravagant lifestyle, so he thought of appropriating other people’s money.
Explaining his fraudulent behavior, the above newspaper quoted the former abbot as saying: “The defendant is still human, thereby falling into difficulties, leading to debt. The deceitful act was helped by the Si and Khoa”.
Answering the court about how the defendant will pay the victims when the amount reaches more than 77 billion, Cung confidently said: “If the defendant is still outside, with the defendant’s ability, he will definitely earn money to pay the victim, how else is the defendant’s business.”
The exact amount that Cung used many deceitful tricks to defraud the property of four people was more than 77.7 billion VND. After being denounced, Cung returned a part to the victims and still appropriated more than 67.7 billion dong, so the indictment stated this amount.
Because Cung had borrowed money from many people before, after appropriating money from the victims, Cung and Khoa transferred it to 273 people, of which 261 received more than 75 billion VND from Cung.
Mass scams
According to the indictment, through the program “Bears of Mercy” held at Hoa Binh Theater (HCMC) in 2015, Cung became acquainted with Ms. NTHP (Director of an electronic equipment company in Ho Chi Minh City).
Knowing that Mrs. P is a businessman with money, Cung invited her to visit Phuoc Quang Pagoda and the Fountain of Love Center and then “fake suffering” and told about the debt of 6.5 billion dong for the construction of the works.
Feeling sorry for the situation of the temple, Ms. P lent Cung 700 million VND, but Cung asked Khoa to print the merit receipt, not write the debt.
After that, Cung used the trick of hiring people to pretend to be kidnapped, using a Chinese phone number sim to call Ms. P., loudly threatened to ask her to transfer more than 5.7 billion VND in a week to redeem it. returned by teacher “Thich Phuoc Ngoc”.
Mrs. P. immediately transferred 5.7 billion VND. After receiving the money, Cung divided it among the participants in the fake kidnapping of 5 million VND.
Not stopping, Cung also lied many times that he was in debt, seriously ill, had to flee to China, so Ms. P. transferred more than 10 billion VND. In total, Cung cheated Mrs. P. 18.5 billion VND.
The indictment published by Vietnamnet also states that in 2017, Pham Van Cung knew a woman in Hanoi and invited her to Vinh Long to visit Phuoc Quang pagoda and the center of Fountains.
Cung again tricked this Hanoi woman into saying that she and the orphans of the center were locked up in a truck by the gangsters, threatened to kill, and cried bitterly. Thanks to this fake kidnapping case, the Hanoi woman’s donkeys totaled more than 26 billion VND.
Besides, Pham Van Cung has known female singer HL since 2015 during a cultural program at Phuoc Quang pagoda. From here, Cung and the singer regularly communicate with each other.
In 2020, Pham Van Cung arose the intention to appropriate the singer’s money, so he went directly to L.’s house to play and talk. Through conversation, Cung knew that the singer had a friend who wanted to return to Vietnam to settle down but had problems with paperwork.
Therefore, Pham Van Cung immediately “exploded” himself as a “secret agent”, “intelligence”, often sent abroad. More cheeky, he also combined a fake photo of himself with a senior leader to send to singer L. to prove that his wide relationship could help the singer’s friend return to his country to settle down.
Seeing L. nodding in confidence, Pham Van Cung asked the singer to pay the cost of 1 million USD and to transfer 50% in advance to do settlement procedures for her friend. Believe the word, the singer transferred more than 13 billion VND to Cung.
Synthetic
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