The group that kidnaps the owner of the coconut garden demands 4.5 billion dong in ransom to appear in court

This morning (April 29), the People’s Court of Ba Ria – Vung Tau province opened a first-instance court hearing the case of Kidnapping to appropriate property that occurred in Xuyen Moc district, Ba Ria – Vung Tau province by Tran Anh Tuan (35). age, hometown Tay Ninh) mastermind implementation.

Along with the court were 8 other defendants, including: Tran Van Tin (32 years old, from Tien Giang), Le Minh (42 years old), Tran Van Sang (33 years old), Le Bao Hoai Nam (24 years old), Tran Ba ​​Vuong (23 years old). 35 years old), living in HCMC); Mai Xuan Duy (30 years old), Nguyen Xuan Cao (40 years old) and Nguyen Van Thuan (49 years old), living in Lam Dong province.

All were prosecuted for the same crime as an accomplice, helping Tran Anh Tuan to kidnap the owner of a coconut garden for 4.5 billion ransom.

At the court hearing this morning, during the interrogation, defendant Tuan declared all the crimes and admitted to being the mastermind, calling on the above defendants to participate. While some other defendants only admitted to controlling and arresting victims, not “extorting money”, because they thought they did not know Tuan’s intention to kidnap for ransom.

At the end of the interrogation and interrogation at 11:30 pm, the jury decided to postpone, after the holiday of April 30 to May 1, the case will continue to be brought to trial.

According to the case file, Tran Anh Tuan knows Mr. Tran Quang Vinh (51 years old, residing in Hoa Hiep commune, Xuyen Moc district) and heard Mr. Vinh say that he has a coconut garden of more than 10 hectares in Phu Thien hamlet, Hoa Hiep commune for sale. 38 billion dong.

At the beginning of October 2020, Tuan took guests to buy Mr. Vinh’s coconut garden, but could not agree on the original price, so Tuan was angry because he could not receive the brokerage money, and had the intention to kidnap Mr. Vinh to threaten. family, ransom.

To fulfill his intention, Tuan contacted Mai Xuan Duy and lied that he needed to find a place to send a relative to rehab. Next, Tuan called to hire Tran Van Tin to help, asking Tin to call more people to join the plan “kidnapping Mr. Vinh to collect debt”.

Through Tin, Tuan invited more Tran Van Sang, Le Minh, Tran Ba ​​Vuong, Le Bao Hoai Nam and a person named Hoang (whose identity is unknown) to join and negotiate a salary of 100 million VND after the mission was completed. . To create motivation, Tuan advanced to the Tin group 20 million.

On December 4, Tuan rented a car to transport Tin, Minh, Sang, Vuong, Nam, and Hoang from Ho Chi Minh City to Ba Ria City, rented a motel, slept and went to survey the location. At 12 o’clock the next day, the whole group of Tuan moved to Vinh’s coconut garden according to the appointment.

Here, Tuan’s group controlled, pushed Mr. Minh into the car, tied his hands, covered his mouth and drove away. After running a few kilometers, Tuan paid the remaining amount of 80 million VND to the Tin group so that the group could return to Ho Chi Minh City. As for Tuan, Tin continued to drive Mr. Vinh to Lam Dong.

When he arrived in Lam Dong, Tuan assigned Mr. Vinh to Mai Xuan Duy, Nguyen Xuan Cao, and Nguyen Xuan Huan to guard a hut in the middle of a coffee garden in village 1, Loc Bac commune, Bao Lam district and paid Duy 10 million copper.

Then, Tuan contacted Mrs. Dinh Thi Hien (Vinh’s wife) to threaten and demand 4.5 billion dong for ransom. However, after 48 hours of receiving the news, the police force arrested Tuan, Tin and related subjects and rescued the victim safely.

Quang Hung