11 people in the fake red book swap ring led by a former police officer were sentenced

After 5 days of trial and deliberation, on the morning of May 9, the Hanoi People’s Court sentenced defendant Nguyen Manh Cuong (36 years old, residing in Soc Son district) to a sentence of 19 years and 6 months in prison for two crimes of “fraudulent appropriation of property”. and Forging seals and documents of agencies and organizations”. In the same case, 10 other defendants were sentenced to sentences ranging from 1 to 17 years in prison.

In addition, the court also declared all civil transactions in the case to be invalid, canceling mortgage transactions, transferring house and land ownership between the defendants and related people. The land use right certificate is returned to the owner.

According to the indictment, through real estate buying and selling websites, Vu Quy Lam (36 years old, native of Hai Duong, a former police officer) found out information about the landowner and then contacted, pretending to be a real estate agent. bought land, and the 11 accomplices mentioned above committed fraud with two main tricks.

First, Lam went to real estate websites, looked for people who wanted to sell land, then contacted himself with a fake name, saying he had a need to buy. He asked your party to send a photo of the Land Use Right Certificate for verification, but in fact it was collecting information to make a fake red book.

When he met the landowner, when they were not paying attention, he swapped the real red book with the fake one he had prepared.

When he had the real red book in hand, Lam assigned his accomplices to fake the ID card and household registration of the land owner, pretend to be the owner of the land and sign a transfer contract to another person.

Second, Lam introduced himself as being able to borrow money at low interest rates from banks in the form of red book mortgages. After the borrower gives the red book to Lam, the Lam group will forge the identity papers of the landowner and then pretend to transfer or mortgage or borrow from a bank.

Among the victims of this crime line, Mr. and Mrs. Ly Van V. (42 years old, Hanoi) were appropriated 3.2 billion VND when buying real estate from Mr. Le Duc L. (63 years old).

Next, the group invited the landowner to a coffee shop to talk. At the meeting, Mr. L’s representative showed the red book to Lam’s group, taking advantage of the loophole, the subjects exchanged for the real red book.

Later, Lam’s group hired defendant Dinh Duc Hiep to pretend to be Mr. L. to make personal documents including ID card and fake household registration book.

Allegedly, due to the need to buy land, Mr. V and his wife (in Hanoi) contacted Lam’s group. The two sides agreed, the selling price of the land is 3.2 billion dong. Under Lam’s instructions, Hiep impersonated Mr. L. went to Mr. V’s house to sign a contract for real estate transfer. Mr. V. and his wife have fully paid the above amount for Lam group.

On January 3, 2020, Mr. V and his wife brought the red book to the branch of the Hanoi Land Registration Office in Gia Lam district to carry out the procedures to change the name, only to find out that Mr. L.’s family had an application to temporarily stop transaction of the above land plot.

The procedural authorities determined, with the above tricks, Lam and his accomplices carried out 11 fraud cases, appropriating a total amount of more than 22 billion VND from individuals, organizations and banks. After each successful case, Lam divided between VND 1.5 million and VND 400 million for each accomplice.

With his actions, Vu Quy Lam was prosecuted for the crime of “fraudulent appropriation of property and forging seals and documents of agencies and organizations”. After committing the crime, Lam fled the investigation agency to separate the case and handle it later.

According to Hoang An