Impersonating the grandchild of the provincial leader, scamming more than 61 billion VND into the casino

On April 22, the People’s Procuracy of Khanh Hoa province said that there was an indictment against defendant Nguyen Trong Thanh (born in 1991, residing in Xuan Lac 2 village, Vinh Ngoc commune, Nha Trang city, province). Khanh Hoa) for fraud to appropriate property and forging seals and documents of agencies and organizations.

According to the investigation results, more than three years ago, Thanh practiced real estate brokerage, when he learned that Mr. Pham Duc H., Director of Viet Way Investment Joint Stock Company (with a transaction office in Hanoi) wanted to buy Khanh Hoa coastal land to invest with shareholders in high-end hotel and resort projects should find an approach.

After many discussions, knowing that Mr. H. was assigned to manage large capital by shareholders in the enterprise, at the end of August 2018, Thanh “exploded” was the director of Thanh An Real Estate One Member Limited Company in Nha Trang City. Page; pretended to be the grandson of a leader of Khanh Hoa province at that time to “bait” Mr. H. with a deposit of 750 million VND to buy 5 plots of land in the My Gia urban area project at the original price.

Thanh took a “red book” of two coastal land plots in Tay village, Ninh Van commune, Ninh Hoa town (Khanh Hoa) of his sister, Nguyen Thi My Hoa, who is living in Ho Chi Minh City, and transferred them to Mr. H. Then “draw” out the name of the owner of these 2 land plots, Le Thanh Lam, who is in need of connecting to invest in a hotel and resort.

Subject Nguyen Trong Thanh.

To appropriate Mr. H.’s money, Thanh created an email box [email protected] impersonated Le Thanh Lam to send letters to discuss the feasibility of the project, and at the same time persuade Mr. H. to contribute capital for business cooperation. Joint venture with Lam and Thanh, established Beachcomber Nha Trang Co., Ltd. True thought, Mr. H. transferred 3,753 billion VND to the account appointed by Thanh; At the same time, Thanh drafted a procedure book such as “Land measurement service contract” project in Ninh Van commune, Ninh Hoa town, “Deposit contract” to build trust with Mr. H.

Not stopping there, Thanh continued to deceive Mr. H. contributed capital to buy a land plot in Ngo Thoi Nhiem street, Tan Lap ward, Nha Trang city for 22 billion VND and pledged to resell 28.5 billion VND. . In November and December 2018, Mr. H. transferred 8 billion VND to Thanh to pay a deposit to buy the above land plot. At the end of the year, Mr. H. informed Thanh that shareholders in Viet Way Investment Joint Stock Company did not agree to invest in the project in Ninh Van commune, Ninh Hoa town, but wanted the coastal location elsewhere. near Nha Trang city.

At this time, Thanh had “thrown” all the money appropriated by Mr. H. into the red-black battles in Khanh Hoa, Binh Thuan, so he continued to plot fraud when introducing the coastal project land in Bai Dai, Cam Lam district (Khanh Hoa).

In order to build trust with Mr. H., Thanh used his phone to access Google Map to search for a land plot of 17,864m2 on the coast of Bai Dai and then asked an acquaintance to find out information to know that the land parcel was assigned by Khanh Hoa Provincial People’s Committee to the Company. Sovico Khanh Hoa Co., Ltd. deploys resort hotel project; at the same time, asked the person to draw the map of this land plot and the extended land of 92,000m2 to transfer it to Mr. H. and lied that the land was owned by him.

This time, Thanh entered the social network to contact an object to “order” to fake the “red book” CE number 585862 issued to Nguyen Trong Thanh by the Khanh Hoa Provincial People’s Committee. With this fake “red book”, Thanh urged Mr. H. and 3 shareholders in Viet Way Investment Joint Stock Company to contribute capital for investment cooperation. On October 29, 2018, Thanh “drawn” a business cooperation contract to establish South Pacific Hotel Services and Investment Joint Stock Company, introducing the representative of Party A as a leader of Khanh Hoa province. Hoa assigned Thanh as a representative, holding the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors, contributing 45% of the shares equal to the land value, the rest Mr. H. and 3 shareholders representing Party B contributed 72 billion VND and assigned the assignment. for Mr. H. as General Director.

Accordingly, Thanh commits to his partner that he will undertake the procedures for establishing a business, transferring the ownership of the land plot to South Pacific Company and legal documents and procedures for project implementation, and Mr. . and shareholders pay the cost of administrative procedures, pay land tax. After the two parties signed a business cooperation contract, Thanh created an email pretending to be the leader of Khanh Hoa province to send a letter requesting Mr. H and shareholders to transfer 36 billion VND to carry out procedures for transferring land ownership. land, pay land tax, and at the same time “order” for an object to fake the “red book” CE 585905 issued on December 26, 2018 and the “red book” CE 585862 issued on June 22, 2019 by the People’s Committee of Khanh Hoa province granted to Thai Binh Duong Company the land plots of 17,864m2 and 92,000m2.

Next, Thanh accessed the website of Khanh Hoa province to look up a number of documents and procedures related to land, project investment, notice of land tax payment, etc., then transferred the model, information, stamp image. , the signature of the authorized person for the subject of forging 3 decisions, 4 notices, 1 land lease contract of the People’s Committee, Department of Natural Resources and Environment, Department of Planning and Investment, Department of Taxation of Khanh Hoa province. content of land allocation, land lease, investment certificate… hotel and resort project of South Pacific Company to provide to “partners”.

More daring and reckless, Thanh also “draws” a minutes to provide documents related to business cooperation activities, receives capital contribution signed by Mr. Le Thanh Quang and seals the Khanh Hoa Provincial Party Committee. By the above tricks, from the end of July 2018 to the beginning of October 2019, Nguyen Trong Thanh fraudulently appropriated nearly 61.4 billion VND, including more than 28.2 billion VND of Mr. H. and more 33.1 billion of the remaining 3 shareholders.

The entire amount of money appropriated by the fraudsters, Thanh “throws” into games and gambling at many casinos in Khanh Hoa, Binh Thuan, Gia Lai and Cambodia. Until being prosecuted and taken into custody by the Khanh Hoa Provincial Police Department’s Security Investigation Agency at the end of May 2020, Thanh only returned Mr. H. 200 million dong, while the defendant’s property was seized. only 1 car, 1 computer, 1 mobile phone and 20 million VND.

The indictment of the People’s Procuracy of Khanh Hoa province indicting Nguyen Trong Thanh on the crime of “fraudulently appropriating property” under Clause 4, Article 104 of the Penal Code has a penalty of 12 to 20 years in prison or life imprisonment and the crime of “Forging seals” , documents of agencies and organizations” according to Clause 3, Article 341 of the Penal Code, has a penalty of 3 to 7 years in prison.

According to Huu Toan