Illegally buying and selling bank accounts, enjoying the difference up to dozens of times

Hire students, students, people with little knowledge of the law to open the Bank accountor falsify documents to open accounts and then sell them abroad, according to the police, these unregistered accounts will assist criminals to commit fraud and violate the law.

A group of people who specialize in buying and selling bank accounts led by Le The Trung (37 years old) residing in Hanoi city has just been arrested by the police of Nghia Dan district, Nghe An province in coordination with other units.

According to investigative documents, in just the past two years, this group has hired people to open more than 3,000 bank accounts at the price of 400,000 VND/account, then sold them abroad with a price difference of up to dozens of times.

Many phone sim cards and bank cards were seized by the police.

“I knew Mr. Ly, then he asked me to collect account information, find someone to make an account, and then send it to Taiwan to serve the purpose of playing online games,” object Le The Trung confessed.

This target group also established a construction company to facilitate customer search and transaction. Police in Nghe An province arrested and summoned 10 related subjects, seized hundreds of phone sims, many of which had been activated with OTP codes, especially many accounts had transactions of up to 400 billion VND.

Similarly, last week, in the provinces of Hanoi and Bac Giang, many lines of illegal trading of bank accounts were dismantled by police forces. Notably, a group of subjects did not stop buying, but also forged documents such as identity cards to open many different bank accounts to sell to Cambodia for 1 million VND/account.

“I see that buying and selling bank account information can be profitable, so I hired students in Hanoi to open accounts and buy them back. I resell them to those who need them. buy”, object Vu Duc Anh confessed.

The consequences of buying and selling bank accounts will make it difficult for investigative agencies in cases of fraud to appropriate property via the Internet, anonymity, difficulty in tracing the origin of bank accounts. fraudsters appropriate property,” said Senior Colonel Vu Van Dau, Deputy Director of Bac Giang Provincial Police.

The police agency also determined that many bank accounts, after being resold by the subjects, will be used for unclear and illegal purposes such as transferring and withdrawing money in fraud cases. use junk sim to log in to Internet banking, link to open other e-wallet accounts to appropriate money.

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