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A couple in Hanoi cheated more than 100 people, appropriating nearly 30 billion VND

Today (April 27), the People’s Court of Hanoi brought defendants Lai Thi Van (born 1980, hometown of Thai Binh) and Pham Ba Trac (born 1959, in Ha Dong district, Hanoi) to trial for the crime of fraud. take property.

Previously, from June 2017 to April 2020, the Hanoi Police Department received applications from many people accusing Van and Trac of fraudulently appropriating property, through receiving money from many people to do business. procedures to apply for them to work abroad in Australia.

The results of the investigation determined: From 2015-2017, the two defendants, despite having no function or ability to carry out procedures to send other people to work abroad in Australia, gave false information to deceive them. property appropriation island.

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The two defendants in court

Van made up the story that he had a long working life in the field of labor export, and Trac “exploded” himself as a high-ranking official in a State agency, had many relationships, was able to apply for many people to go abroad. labor export in Australia.

Both pledges, people going to work abroad in Australia will be able to work for 2-4 years, with a salary of about 3,000-4,000 USD/month. Employees must pay a fee of 5,000 – 30,000 USD, depending on the job.

According to the promise, after paying a deposit (from 2,000-10,000 USD) for about 3 months, the employee will be allowed to leave the country to work in Australia and have to pay the remaining amount.

Victims in many different provinces and cities have directly or through intermediaries submitted money and documents to Van and Trac to ask the two defendants to carry out procedures for them or their relatives to work abroad in Australia.

After receiving the money, Pham Ba Trac and Lai Thi Van organized for the workers to go for health check-ups and learn English. After that, the workers were taken to Lo Duc Street (Hanoi) to do the procedures for fingerprinting, taking photos, etc. to apply for a visa.

However, the above actions are just “fake gestures”, aimed at creating trust and prolonging the waiting time of employees. In fact, Trac and Van did not do any formalities to bring them to work abroad in Australia.

At the end of the commitment period, the victims are not allowed to go abroad to ask for money. At this time, the two scammers wrote a promise to return the money, but then fled, appropriating the money of the naive.

On July 11, 2020, Pham Ba Trac went to the investigation agency to surrender. On February 3, 2021, Lai Thi Van was arrested under a wanted warrant.

The prosecution agency determined that Van and Trac had fraudulently appropriated 97 victims with a total amount of more than VND 29.3 billion.

The victims and people with related interests and obligations in the case ask the defendants to return the money they have appropriated.

At the court hearing this morning, the representative of the Procuracy said that regarding the accused, Ha Dong District Police has just transferred the file of the 34 victims in Hai Duong to the Hanoi Police.

Therefore, the Procuracy proposed to return this case file to merge it into the case that the Ha Dong District Police just transferred the file. In addition, the two defendants testified that there were two other victims in Nghe An province in the previous case of fraud of 97 people.

After considering, the trial panel announced to return the files to merge the 2 cases, recording 2 more victims.

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