Swapping a series of red books, fraudulently appropriating tens of billions of dong in Hanoi

The trial panel sentenced defendant Nguyen Manh Cuong (SN 1986, in Soc Son) to a prison term of 19 years and 6 months for fraud to appropriate property and forging seals and documents of agencies and organizations.

Related to the case, 8 other defendants were sentenced to 8 to 17 years in prison for the same two crimes. Particularly, defendants Nguyen Thi Phuc (SN 1970, in Hai Ba Trung district) and Pham Van Dong (SN 1990, in Hoai Duc) were respectively sentenced to 13 years and 1 year in prison for forging seals and documents of the agency. , organization.

The trial panel also declared all civil transactions in the above case to be null and void, canceling the mortgage transactions, house and land ownership transfer between the defendants and related people. The land use right certificate is returned to the owner.

According to the indictment, the defendants in the case used tricks to use the personal information of many people on the Internet to fake red books, fake personal papers, swap red books, etc. billions dong.

Red book swap in the blink of an eye

Specifically, from 2018 to January 2020, Vu Quy Lam (SN 1986, in Hai Duong, a former police officer was removed from the army) and his accomplices discussed, planned and agreed on a scam scenario. island to earn money.

Through real estate buying and selling websites, Lam learns about people who need to sell houses and land and then contacts the landowner, pretending to be a buyer, asking the land owner to take a photo of the Land Use Right Certificate and send it to the owner. Lam let him fake it.

In the process of approaching the landowner, taking advantage of the loophole, Lam swapped the fake land use right certificate for the real land use right certificate of the owner.

After having the real red book, Lam discussed and assigned his accomplices to fake identity papers (ID card, household registration book…) of the land owner.

The group took portrait photos and took fingerprints of the right and left index fingers of their accomplices and then combined them with the personal information of the land owner to fake the red book.

After that, the group of criminals pretending to be the landowner signed a transfer contract to another person for the purpose of appropriating money.

Allegedly, Lam also introduced himself to be able to borrow money with low interest rates at banks, in the form of mortgaging a red book.

After the borrower gave Lam the red book, he discussed and assigned his accomplices to forge the identity papers of the land owner so that his accomplices could sign a contract to transfer the mortgage or authorize others to do so. purpose of taking money.

Using the above tricks, Lam and his accomplices fraudulently appropriated land use right certificates and money from 11 individuals (8 cases) and VPBank (3 cases).

Among the victims of Lam and his accomplices were Mrs. L.’s wife (SN 1966, in Tay Ho). In October 2019, Mrs. L. and her husband asked someone to sell a land plot of more than 200m2 in Long Bien district on Internet sites.

Lam introduced himself by name Hoang, came to meet and discuss with Mrs. L. about buying and selling land. To create trust, the scammer promises to buy the above land plot of Mrs. L. and her husband for 12 billion VND, promising to deposit a few days later.

After that, Lam and his accomplices forged the red book of the land of Mrs. L’s family. On October 28, 2019, Lam and a few people brought the fake red book back to Mrs. L’s house.

Taking advantage of the land owner’s loophole, in a flash, Lam swapped the original certificate of land use right and gave it back to Mrs. L. the fake red book.

Appropriating the red book of the couple L., Lam and his accomplices forged the household registration book, identity card… of the land owner to sign a transfer contract.

A man named T. then agreed to pledge the above land plot for 2 billion VND for 2 years (the land owner will transfer the land use right to the pledgee for 2 years). Mr. T. took the red book as a mortgage at MBBank to borrow VND7 billion.

Lam was prosecuted by the police for fraud to appropriate property and forging seals and documents of agencies and organizations. But after committing the crime Lam escaped, so he is wanted.

T.Velvet